Sergeant Dwayne Conlon was awarded a Bronze Scott Medal for risking his life while apprehending a man who had entered the grounds of the Dáil, having armed himself with a sword and knives.

The jury on the trial of four gardaí accused of locking a woman in a bathroom as her teenage son was allegedly assaulted in bed has been sent home for the night.

A Nigerian who burnt his two-year-old son’s face with boiling water and fractured it has been given a two years suspended sentence by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal.