A man who hit a 70-year-old man over the head with a crowbar and stole his bus pass has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

A man has appeared in court today charged with impeding the investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found hidden in a wardrobe at his flat on Prussia Street in Dublin at the weekend.

The brother of a man accused of murdering 53-year-old Christopher Jackson, who was stabbed to death at his home in Dublin last week, has been charged with covering up the crime.

A man was refused bail today after he was accused of helping to cover up the murder of a 53-year-old man found stabbed to death at his home in Dublin at the weekend.

A Dublin heroin addict who held a blood-contaminated syringe barrel to a woman’s neck in front of her child has be sentenced to eight years for unlawfully taking her car and other serious offences.