Anyone found guilty of drug-pushing should be given mandatory life sentences and kept in prison for at least 40 years, according to a local Labour Party councillor. He was speaking during a debate on ...

A 26-year-old Armagh man who was the subject of one of the largest investigations in the world into the sexual extortion of children has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for the ...

A Fianna Fáil MEP has said the Government is determined to enact the law around life sentences "as soon as possible". Speaking on RTÉ's Fóram programme, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú said the Government accepts ...

THE MAN CONVICTED of murdering Arklow shopkeeper John Deasy will be given a mandatory life sentence on May 20. Anthony Farrell (20) of 26 Marian Villas was convicted of murder by a unanimous jury ...

A violent criminal who “assassinated” a grandfather by emptying “the contents of a pistol” into him when he answered the front door has been sentenced to life in prison. Cailean Crawford (28) had ...

A British court sentenced a couple to life in prison on Monday for the torture and drowning of a 15-year-old boy whom they had accused of being a witch. Eric Bikubi, 28, and his girlfriend Magalie ...