A 16-year-old boy has admitted being the ringleader of two breakouts from a Dublin detention centre which led to massive searches, security reviews, and a community put in fear.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with arson after a fire gutted the Lambert Puppet Theatre — home of iconic children’s TV series Bosco and Wanderly Wagon.

A teenager, charged over a house raid where a mother allegedly escaped by jumping from an upstairs window clutching her baby, has been remanded in custody.

A judge has refused to grant bail to a 15-year-old boy charged with false imprisonment of a young man on a Dublin city centre street.