A man who hit a 70-year-old man over the head with a crowbar and stole his bus pass has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

Two Dublin men have been sentenced for their part in an incident where a Romanian man was shot in the neck.

A Romanian national has today been sentenced to eight years in prison after he left a construction worker with brain damage having hit him over the head five times with a plank of wood.

A mother whose teenage son underwent life-saving surgery in order to remove two cocaine pellets from his bowels after they both swallowed the drugs before flying to Ireland has been given a five year sentence.