EIGHT people were brought to court on assault and public order charges last night in Westmeath after a riot involving up to 200 people at a local housing estate.

A father of one whose getaway car was pushed into a ditch by a garda after a foiled Enniskerry robbery has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

SEARCHES were continuing last night for a gang who rammed gardaí manning a checkpoint after a robbery at a scrap metal compound.