A Balbriggan man who "acted excessively in self defence" by stabbing a man in the leg and breaking glass in his face on the beach has been given a three year sentence by Judge Martin.

A woman has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to attempting to rob a Nigerian shopkeeper near the city centre and using a knife to intimidate him.

A Nigerian man has denied his shop was used by a woman charged with attempting to rob him to trade sex for crack cocaine with two 'black-skinned' men.