A young Dublin man has been sentenced to six years with three suspended for possessing €36,000 of cannabis resin stored in the passenger foot well of a taxi.

A security guard who repeatedly stole from three businesses while on night patrol duty has been given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A young father-of-two who caused the death of his best friend through dangerous driving on a Dublin motorway has been sentenced to five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former English Army corporal has been consigned to a desk job and an inactive life with non-stop headaches after being savagely attacked in Dublin's Temple Bar area.

An "amateur robber" who made "a pathetic attempt at a serious offence" when he robbed a jewellery shop to pay off a so-called drugs debt has been given a five-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An accomplished Wicklow graffiti artist who vandalised 28 walls, shop shutters, wastebins, lampposts and power boxes causing €13,500 worth of damage, has escaped with a suspended sentence.

A Dublin man with an interest in guns faces community service work and a fine later this year for possessing firearms and ammunition he bought legally in South Africa.

A Longford resident has been given a four year suspended sentence for stealing over €49, 000 from his former employer in Swords, County Dublin.

An English-registered construction company has been fined €250,000 for breaching safety regulations on a building site where a Monaghan drainage pipe layer died six years ago.

A health and safety inspector has revealed at the trial of a construction company charged with breaching safety regulations that three safety groups operated on a site where a drainage pipe layer died five years ago.

An electrician who plunged a glass into a complete stranger’s eye because he accidentally bumped into him has been given a four year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Wicklow man and his south Dublin accomplice who terrorised a man during a drug fuelled robbery of his home two years ago have each been given a five year prison sentence.

A chronic heroin addict who robbed one premises twice in four days during a spate of eight armed robberies has been given a 10 year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Mayo man has been given a three years suspended sentence by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court for sexually assaulting a woman in Longford after both had "made a day of it drinking".

A drug addicted robber who gardaí described as "looking like a ghost" at the time of his arrest for four armed bank raids has sentenced to six years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who told his partner’s 13-year-old daughter he was only wasting his time if she didn’t enjoy him raping her has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A drug dealer who attempted to run over a man he wrongly believed was involved in a nightclub altercation with his girlfriend has been jailed for seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who took €71,000 from the back an unlocked ATM machine has been given a three years sentence by Judge Patrick McCarten at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Surinam businessman who swallowed 100 pellets of cocaine to repay a debt loan to criminals has been given a seven year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former building society manager who was cleared of fraudulently laundering €1.1m for builders has had his application for the costs of his trial rejected by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former building society manager accused of laundering money which was allegedly the proceeds of tax fraud by members of the construction industry has been found not guilty by direction of Judge Martin Nolan.

A man who drove a van into a teenager during a drug-induced psychosis and claimed he did it because the victim gave him the ‘evil eye’ has been given a 12-month suspended sentence and an 18-month driving ban at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A retired priest who forced a then 16-year-old boy to perform oral and anal sex on him 20 years ago has escaped a prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The State is not to proceed with the case against David Heatly, the bouncer who was charged with making a false report to gardaí concerning broadcaster Eamon Dunphy.

A student who caused almost €29,000 worth of damage when he set fire to a primary school classroom "just out of boredom" has been given two years detention.