A Dublin alcoholic who suspected a member of his AA group to be a paedophile will be sentenced later for possessing a knife with intent to intimidate.

A chronic drug addict who walked into a Dublin chapel and robbed the collection money at syringe point from a priest has received a seven-year sentence for this and other crimes.

A 61-year-old Scottish man has been sentenced to four years for sending two hoax bomb threat emails to Heathrow Airport purporting to be from the Scottish National Liberation Army.

A Somali native who is due €5,000 compensation for being a gun crime victim will also spend 11 months in jail for glassing a Dublin man in the face during a nightclub fight.

An inmate who assaulted a prison officer at Mountjoy Prison in a “determined and vicious attack” has been given a six-month sentence to run consecutive to a 10-year sentence he is currently serving.

The trial of a man accused of sending two hoax bomb threat emails to Heathrow Airport has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A jury in the trial of a man accused of sending emails to Heathrow Airport claiming there were bombs on flights which were in the air at the time, has heard the threats were assessed not to be a credible risk by the authoritie

A burglar who terrorised an elderly woman before telling her his life story and asking for a cup of tea has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Limerick man who intervened to stop a woman being hassled and then viciously raped her has been sentenced to 14 years.

A young Dublin man with no previous convictions has been given a seven-year sentence with two suspended for possessing nearly €4m of heroin in his car.

A disqualified driver who crashed a stolen car into a parked vehicle after taking a cocktail of alcohol and tablets has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

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 Dublin man who broke into his neighbour’s home and attacked the family living there with a knife has been found not guilty by reason of insanity at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A south Dublin man who slashed four neighbours with a knife told gardaí he had smoked cannabis beforehand and had been smoking it every night for about 20 years.

Two young parents who attacked and attempted to rob Australian tourists in order to fund their drug habits have each received two-year suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drunken father-of-three who told gardai he intended to use a dumbbell bar to "bleedin' kill" a man that a female friend had accused of sexually assaulting her has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An Offaly man who beat a Cork widow so violently it left blood splatters throughout his flat has been jailed for four years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An Offaly man who beat a Cork widow and mother of six so violently it left blood splatters throughout his flat has had his sentence adjourned again by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

An Offaly man, who beat a Cork widow and mother of six so violently it left blood splatters throughout his flat has had his sentence adjourned again by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A woman on trial for allegedly trying to collect €10,000 worth of stolen cosmetics has walked free after a judge ruled the property wasn’t stolen as it had already been found by gardaí.

A man who smashed a pint glass into a Bulgarian barman's head in a County Wicklow pub has been given one more chance by Judge Frank O'Donnell to avoid jail.

An application by the State to reactivate a suspended sentence given to a 18-year-old last year after he drove a stolen car during a high-speed Garda chase has been rejected by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Two Australian backpackers said they would never come to Dublin again after two British criminals broke into their apartment, threatened to cut them up and robbed them, a court heard.

A CORKMAN who raped his two sisters more than 30 years ago has been given a four-year sentence with three years suspended by Mr Justice Paul Butler at the Central Criminal Court.

A Corkman who raped his two sisters over 30 years ago has been given a four-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee who allegedly took bribes for issuing fraudulent visas to Chinese students will continue on Monday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Anthony Hunt has lashed out in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at what he called "this trend in modern society for violence to be used as a first resort" in a case which arose from a trivial incident in a chipper.

A heroin addict who hailed a taxi outside a pharmacy while his accomplices were inside holding up staff with a barbecue fork has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Three amateur robbers from the 'Keystone cops' era whose planned armed raid on a Securicor van at the Lucan Spa Hotel was foiled by gardaí have received a total of 12 years in sentences.

Three young men who attacked gardaí with a sword and a car battery and bit, kicked and punched them to try and obstruct an arrest have been sentenced to two and three year prison terms by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug addict who returned to Ireland from Germany to face a charge of possessing cannabis valued €106,000, even though the case had previously been dropped, has received a seven year jail sentence.

A Surinam national who swallowed 110 "cocktail sausage"-size pellets filled with cocaine has been jailed for five years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A jailed city centre drug dealer has had almost €88,645 of his assets confiscated by the State by order of Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man discovered with his trousers and underwear around his ankles in a toilet in an enclosed nuns' monastery is to get a suspended sentence on very strict conditions from Judge Joseph Matthews.

A single father of six nominated by his children in a newspaper feature as the "ideal father", has been jailed for three years for possession of firearms found in his garden shed.

A chronic heroin addict found himself pinned to the ground by a former Estonian policeman whose house he tried to burgle, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told.

A young chef, who caused almost €4m damage when he burned Grainger’s public house and ‘Bed and Breakfast’ establishment in Baldoyle to the ground, will start a drug rehabilitation course next week.

A drug addict who slashed a man eight times with a knife after breaking into his house in Swords has been jailed for seven years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.