An incident at Oberstown children’s detention centre last August, in which a number of young people got on to the roof, involved “significant” damage to a building and was the “most serious” at the unit in Lusk for some 20 years, the High Court has heard.

Two men are due in court in connection with two robberies in north county Dublin yesterday.

One man had to be taken to hospital last night after a tree fell on his car in north County Dublin.