A man jailed for distributing tens of thousands of child porn images and videos was "well advised" to drop an appeal against the severity of his sentence, according to the President of the Court of Appeal.

A Garda car was rammed three times and officers had to avoid a petrol drum that exploded after being thrown onto the road during a high-speed chase through the midlands.

A Longford man has admitted a string of social welfare frauds involving more than €50,000.

A middle-aged man has been given a second prison sentence for the sexual exploitation of young teenage girls by using Facebook.

A Longford man jailed for five years for an unprovoked attack on an ex-soldier, who died shortly afterwards, has succeeded in having nine months of his sentence suspended on appeal.