Two men who barged their way into the home of two brothers because they claimed they wanted a “straightener” over a drug debt have been jailed for stabbing the men’s fathers.

A man who had his conviction quashed for the tiger kidnapping of a Securicor driver and his family has been granted bail pending his retrial.

A teenager who crashed into a stationary Garda Special Branch car, which was escorting former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, during a high-speed garda chase has today avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who carried out an attempted armed raid on a bookmakers, days after being released from jail with a newly-acquired heroin addiction, has been sentenced to three years in prison.

A drug addict whose 26 year crime spree took him all over the country has received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for two additional offences.

A 23-year-old man who discharged a sawn off shotgun through the sitting room window of a Ballyfermot house in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for seven years.

A man who served a sentence for the manslaughter of his best friend over a decade ago will be sentenced next week for burglary at St James's Hospital.

A chronic heroin addict grandfather who was “groomed into crime from the age of eight” by his own father has been given an eight-year sentence for a string of burglaries by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

The final inmate in a group of six who took part in a St. Stephen's Day riot at St Patrick's Institution in which four prison officers were injured has received a three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Five inmates who took part in a St. Stephen's Day riot at St. Patrick's Institution in which four prison officers were injured have received two and three year sentences in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who is serving a life sentence for attempted murder, has been jailed for four years after he was caught driving a stolen car and head-butting a garda a week after shooting the 49-year-old man.

A 22 year-old north Dublin man who kicked a garda in the face and in a separate incident viciously assaulted a man in his fifties on Christmas morning has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Court.

The High Court has been told that a National Irish Bank employee who offered an offshore investment scheme to a Co Meath farmer was not Beverly Cooper Flynn.