Patrick O'Connell

A self-described ‘monster' who subjected his former partner to two years of sickening physical assaults refused to apologise to her as he was released from prison this week.

A basketball coach – who had been suspended from coaching on foot of allegations of grooming and later arrested on suspicion of child sex abuse – has been found dead in tragic circumstances in Co Cork.

A family farm owned by ‘Mr. Moonlight' murderer Patrick Quirke is making a killing while he serves out a life sentence for slaying love-rival Bobby Ryan.

This is the moment Dublin criminal Alan Morrison was busted in connection with a case where he was charged with attempting to extort €30,000 from popstar Rihanna's former bodyguard Geoff Keating.

A former Garda detective has said the suspect arrested and released without charge this week on suspicion of the murder of Jo Jo Dullard was on the radar of ‘Operation Trace' from its inception in 1998.

A woman who stabbed her brother to death in a row over the inheritance of a house has been ordered to pay his son €212,000 in compensation.

A HORROR attack on a prisoner involving 16 of his fellow inmates in the Midlands Prison has been linked to an epidemic of ‘spice' overdoses.

A FORMER garda ordered to shut down an unlicensed puppy farm where he kept up to 100 dogs has claimed the authorities “have painted a bad picture” of him.

Police are investigating allegations a €1,000-a-night rented AirBnB in Rostrevor, Co. Down – where Conor McGregor and his partner Dee stayed over the course of his civil trial for rape – was subjected to an act of voyeurism mid-trial.

Patsy Hutch – who a court deemed there was a ‘reasonable possibility' he planned the Regency Hotel attack – joined criminal brother Gerry Hutch's election campaign this week.