FIVE members of a brutal crime gang who stabbed, beat and branded a man with the word “rat” last year have been caged. The ...

Five members of the Hennessy Organised Crime Group were jailed this week but, as Paul Reynolds reports, the case has raised serious questions about the State's ability to tackle organised crime.

Five members of a family-based organised crime group who branded another man with the word 'RAT' have been jailed at the Special Criminal Court ...

Five members of a Dublin criminal gang will serve prison terms between three and 8½ years for an assault in which the victim ...

Five members of a Dublin criminal gang have been jailed for a total of 34 years for torturing a man who was waterboarded and had the word ‘rat’ branded on his head and torso with a hot iron poker.

The judge said the court had difficulty describing what happened as words like 'dreadful, horrendous and frightening are not sufficient to describe the horror' ...

The branding marks on the victim's face were designed to "maximise the visibility of his [the victim's] humiliation," the ...

The gang were paraded for the cameras out the front door of the Criminal Courts of Justice by officers that night, seen ...

The infamous Hennessy mob laughed and joked their way through court proceedings - the Dublin gangsters have finally been ...

Dean Fitzsimons, levelled the outrageous insult at Judge Paula Murphy during a court appearance in February. Fitzsimons, 26, ...