A drug dealer who stabbed his wife in the throat during a “three-day bender” has been sentenced to three years in prison.

A man who harassed his ex-partner and her boyfriend as he was unwilling to accept the demise of his relationship with her is to be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A homeless man who started fires at St James Hospital, Heuston Station and James Street causing the evacuation of the station and cancellation of the Luas has been given a seven-year sentence.

A 21-year-old Dublin man has been given a five-year sentence for having sex with his underage cousin and sexually abusing her and her younger sister at their granny’s house.

The trial of a Chinese national accused of attacking an Irishman with a meat cleaver has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A mother of four who hid almost €40,000 worth of heroin in a baby’s pram when gardaí raided her home has been remanded on bail pending sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A former drug addict who punched his former girlfriend "30 to 40 times" in the face because he believed she was texting another man has been given a five-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A youth who hijacked a car at knife-point and later crashed into a couple's vehicle after he drove dangerously with his lights off in an attempt to kill himself has been sentenced to six years in prison with the final two suspended.

A Finglas heroin addict has been jailed for five years for robbing €10,000 cash from a betting agent clerk as she walked to the bank.

A convicted armed robber who left his fingerprint on a bettng docket in a bookie's office has been jailed for six years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

There were angry scenes at the Four Courts earlier today when a person sitting in the public gallery was removed from a court room after the Court of Criminal Appeal imposed a 120 hour community sentence order on a man who admitted dangerous driving causing death of a young woman.

A serial sex offender once described by a judge as a "walking menace to every female" has had the six year prison sentence he received for sexually assaulting a young Japanese woman halved by the Court of Criminal appeal.

A "functioning alcoholic and drug user" who boasted in a pub that he had a semiautomatic pistol has been given a 15-years prison sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell who described him as "a danger to society"

A serial sex offender has been jailed for six years which he is to serve consecutive to a current six-year rape sentence after he was described by Judge Frank O'Donnell as a "walking menace to every female out there" .

A serial sex offender described by gardaí as "a danger to women" and is currently serving a prison term has had his sentence for the sexual assault of a young Japanese woman adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.