A former homeless man who set fires in wheelie bins to heat his sleeping bag has been sentenced to three years in prison for arson at two Dublin locations.

A GAA coach who was jailed for seven years for possessing cannabis was caught for a similar offence when his fingerprints were found during a Tipperary drugs bust, a court has heard.

The trial of a man accused of using his dead brother’s identity to fraudulently claim over €46,000 in pension payments has collapsed after one day of evidence.

A GAA coach was caught “red-handed” with more than half-a-million euro worth of cannabis during a drug seizure in Dublin, a court heard yesterday.