A garda has praised the maturity of a 14-year-old boy who kept his younger brother calm as they were robbed at knife point on the way to sports practice.

A man who viciously attacked his former partner and mother of his two children, because he wanted to see his sons, has been jailed for two years.

A Dublin father of three has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing an imitation firearm in a stolen BMW car.