An American man has been sentenced to two years for sexually abusing a seven-year-old boy while visiting friends in Ireland.

A drug dealer was arrested after he reported a garda search of his former home as a burglary, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

The uncle of a man jailed for seven years for stabbing a teenage father during a street brawl in Tallaght has been given a two year suspended sentence for production of a knife in relation to the fatal incident.