A Swords man who told the security guard of a supermarket he had just robbed that he knew where he lived and would shoot him if he did not let let him go free has been given a three-year sentence.

A 'crac' cocaine and heroin addict who went on a crime spree in which he held up shops and threatened staff with weapons has been sentenced to seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Irish Army soldier who discovered he tried to rob his local garage when his friends called him to say he was on TV programme Crimeline may have the option of community service in lieu of a prison sentence.