A woman has been convicted after she was caught driving with her husband in the car boot, leading a horse.

A DISTRICT Court judge has described as tragic, frightening and embarrassing the state’s failure to provide drug treatment facilities for defendants outside the prison system.

THE President of the High Court Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan was last night nominated by the Government as a member of the Supreme Court.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires, and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a year to continue treatment for her compulsive behaviour before being sentenced.

The sentence of a woman described as a "nut and fruit case" after she made a series of false claims to the Gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, and house fires and of being with a reported abandoned baby has been adjourned again pending a psychiatric report.

A Co Down man has been remanded for sentencing in January after pleading guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to kidnapping, hijacking a Garda car and having a gun with intent to resist arrest.