There are serious concerns about how the Defence Forces is handling allegations of violence and abuse against its members, with claims that there is no “ownership” of such cases at the top of the ...

There was enormous alarm over the case of Cathal Crotty, at the time a serving Irish soldier, who beat a woman unconscious in ...

The three-judge court imposed the sentence after an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who argued that the ...

Former Irish soldier Cathal Crotty has been sentenced to two years in prison for a violent assault on Natasha O’Brien on ...

The Court of Appeal has ruled a three-year wholly suspended sentence imposed on former soldier Cathal Crotty, for beating a woman unconscious in a random attack, was unduly lenient and jailed him ...

Cathal Crotty, who is 22 and from Ardnacrusha in County Clare, had been handed a suspended sentence for the offence last June. He attacked 25-year-old Natasha O'Brien in Limerick in 2022 after she ...

Muireann O’Connell has expressed her shock at some of the online abuse following Natasha O’Brien’s Ireland AM interview.

The Court of Appeal has overturned the fully suspended sentence handed down to former soldier Cathal Crotty and jailed him for two years for beating Natasha O'Brien unconscious on a public street ...

Natasha O’Brien said she didn’t expect to feel as emotional as she did when her attacker was taken away to prison after his ...