A man who was serving a 40-year driving ban when he led gardaí on a high-speed car chase has been jailed for two and a half years.

A teenager who hit the director of a children's detention centre on the head with a metal bar and smashed up the centre has been jailed for four years.

A talented footballer has been sentenced to community service in lieu of time in prison for an assault he took part in as a teenager 13 years ago.

A former Anglo Irish Bank clerk has been given a suspended sentence for defrauding his employer of €200,000 while the bank was being nationalised.

A robber, whose accomplice smashed the windscreen of an off-duty garda car’s with a samurai sword, has avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Dublin men who were part of a riot during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland in 2011 will be sentenced in March.

A father-of-three who punched and kicked his partner to the point of unconsciousness after the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park last summer has been sentenced to three years.

A "menace" who viciously attacked a man after being caught trying to steal his motorbike has been sentenced to 10 years.

A Romanian man who stole cash from a Dublin ATM with cloned credit cards has been sentenced to three years in jail with the final 18 months suspended.

Two Romanian men have been jailed for 16 months for their roles in duplicating credit cards as part of an international fraud operation.

A Polish chef who carried over €65, 000 of cocaine through Dublin Airport in his stomach will be sentenced later.

A young Irish soldier will be sentenced to community service next year for smashing a pint glass into another soldier’s face while drunk in a Dublin pub.