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# Sentence

Last year
2023
Man to be sentenced for sexually exploiting a young child in his care
All time
Man who stored gun used to kill Lyra McKee is sentenced to seven years
Rapist who entered woman's home with crowbar jailed for ten years
Convicted rapist sentenced to three and a half years for assault on former partner and their child
Former Australian rugby player and San Francisco 49er jailed for sexual assault
10-year sentence following coercive control trial 'sends a strong message' to other women
Harry Maguire set for retrial after appeal against Greek court verdict is accepted
Man who broke Covid-19 laws to steal fuel given suspended sentence
Harvey Weinstein transferred to maximum-security prison in upstate New York
Supreme Court restores 10-year sentence imposed on man who raped wife
Judge tells rapist 'nobody gets credibility from the stock they come from' as she sentences him to 12 years in prison
Clare man jailed for eight years for stabbing man in the back during row
Man sentenced to 4 years in prison for sexually assaulting daughter (15)
Judge suggests reform of sentences for elderly people as he jails 78-year-old paedophile
Pub customers 'jeered' at man carrying out robbery with imitation gun, court told
Care worker who uploaded video of sexual assault of resident to Facebook sentenced to year in prison
Man stole over €14,000 from employer while waiting to be charged over child pornography offences
Man who stole over €5,200 worth of diesel from Applegreen station gets four-and-a-half years
Convicted rapist tried to kill man in front of children but failed as shotgun cartridges were damp
Call for urgent review of marital rape sentencing after man has sentence cut
Woman who pleaded guilty to having a gun at Connolly train station walks free after sentencing
'My heart is so full': Victims of US Gymnastics doctor react to 175-year sentence
Man who poured boiling water over his partner in front of their children given suspended sentence
'We'll never forgive him': Former British Army soldier jailed for life for Dublin chip shop murder
Man who murdered his adopted baby daughter jailed for 18 years
Limerick biker found guilty of murdering member of rival motorcycle club
Court upholds 13-year jail term for man who raped woman four times
Eric Locke appealing life sentence for murdering Sonia Blount
Limerick man attacked and sexually assaulted his elderly neighbour
Man who attacked 'good Samaritan' with a jagged beer can jailed for 12 months
'Despicable act': Dublin man uploaded video to porn website without woman's knowledge
Man who weighed cars with concrete blocks in order to ram designer shops jailed for 5.5 years
Woman who stabbed former partner to death and hid body in back garden jailed for 6 years
Israeli soldier sentenced to 18 months for shooting dead injured Palestinian
Driver who killed mother and injured infant in "micro-sleep" has sentence suspended on appeal
No extra jail time for car dealer who sold unsellable clocked car to mother-of-four
Convicted killer who ate his own faeces sentenced to community service for attack on garda
This author's one-sentence novel is the best Irish book of 2016
Man who stabbed housemate to death jailed for five years
Man who sexually abused his sister “in excess of a couple of hundred times” fails to have sentence reduced