THREE schoolgirls who went on a shopping trip to mark one of their birthdays were wrongly accused of shoplifting and held in a small room for almost half an hour, a judge has heard.

A former security worker who staged a 'tiger kidnapping' which involved his housemates being bound with cable ties and threatened at gunpoint has been given a eight-year sentence with two suspended.

A former security worker who staged a 'tiger' kidnapping which involved his housemates being bound with cable ties and threatened at gunpoint has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

A security company worker who provided information to criminals who had planned to steal €1m from a cash-in-transit van has been sentenced to three years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A security company worker who admitted providing information to criminals who planned to steal €1m from a cash-in-transit van will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.