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A jury has been given copies of letters exchanged between a Christian Brother and the family of a boy who was lodged in a Galway residential school after his father lost their family home to a neighbour in a game of cards.

A Westmeath "rampant addict" who picked up a van loaded with heroin valued at €1.6 million because of his €25,000 "drugs debt", has been jailed for seven years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Galway man on trial for knocking down and killing a cyclist has been found not guilty of dangerous driving causing death.

A Kilkenny roofer who transported cocaine valued at over €200,000 because of his so-called “drugs debt” to criminals, will be sentenced later by Judge Rory MacCabe.

The jury in the trial of a 68-year-old former top-flight professional footballer accused of raping and sexually abusing his daughter over a three year period have been discharged after failing to agree a verdict.

A well-known Thomastown man has pleaded guilty to owing the taxman over €400,000 at Kilkenny Circuit Court this week.

The jury in the trial of a former top-flight professional footballer accused of raping and sexually abusing his daughter over a three year period has been discharged after failing to agree a verdict.

An alcoholic schizophrenic Westmeath resident who threw missiles at gardai during the 2006 "Love Ulster" parade riot has been given a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Garda sergeant and Moate native attempted to pay prostitutes to get children as young as five for sex a year after he had been released for a similar offence, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard this week.

An assault case which had been listed for hearing had to be adjourned yesterday after a violent scuffle broke out resulting in a witness being punched in the nose and seriously injured.