A Wicklow woman who attempted to smuggle heroin into Mountjoy Prison concealed in a child’s pocket has been given an 18-month suspended sentence.

A Lucan woman who slashed another woman’s face and breast with a broken bottle in an unprovoked attack, leaving her victim with permanent scarring, is to be sentenced next month.

A trained mechanic who used his social networking site to advertise the fact that he was going to shoot an acquaintance of his ex-girlfriends and that he would “do the prison time for it” has been jailed for three years.