A man has appeared in court in Dublin charged with attacking a 38-year-old man with a hatchet in the inner city over the weekend.

Two men have appeared in court in Dublin charged in connection with an attempted robbery at a post office in Clonsilla.

Three young men broke into an innocent man’s house and accused him of being a paedophile after a girl made false allegations that someone had exposed themselves to her.

The funeral of Michaela Davis, who was killed in Dublin at the weekend, is to take place on Thursday.

A man has been convicted of interfering with the principle prosecution witness in an attempted murder trial to try to persuade him not to give evidence at the trial of the man who had shot him in the head.

A butcher who imported heroin worth €1.5 million as part of a massive cross-channel drugs operation has been jailed for eight years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.