A boot containing a foot found on a Dublin beach was identified as that of a man who’d gone missing 10 months earlier.

A homeless English alcoholic - who scavenged for food in supermarket bins - has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney for savage attacks on two north Dublin women.

A woman who was 15-years-old when caught with 1,000 "ecstasy" tablets she was holding for her boyfriend has received a one year suspended sentence from Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.