A young man who went on a crime spree because he felt he was being pressured into an arranged marriage has been given a three-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Chinese national spent half an hour in the Royal Canal on a freezing winter night after being pushed down a steep incline into the water by three teenage thugs who had attempted to rob him.

A 14-year-old ecstasy victim died in her Brazilian boyfriend’s bedroom a week before her body was found in the garden of a nearby house, an inquest heard today.