A decision is awaited on whether a prosecution will proceed against a 12-year-old Dublin boy accused of possessing a knife and producing a hammer in an assault during a school meeting with a teacher.

A 16-year-old has been remanded on bail pending sentence after he was found guilty of attacking a woman from his neighbourhood with an inflatable baseball bat.

A first-time teen offender, who took part in an unprovoked attack where a man was repeatedly kicked to his head and left needing reconstructive surgery, has been remanded on continuing bail pending sentence.

A 13-year-old schoolboy made his first ever court appearance yesterday to face drug dealing allegations after his arrest for possessing nearly €1,000 worth of crack-cocaine, heroin and cannabis resin.