A taxi driver who was caught with €1m worth of heroin in his car and at the home he shared with his partner has been given the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for this offence by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A man who was involved in a dangerous high speed chase through Dublin city centre and less than a week later pointed a gun at gardaí while resisting arrest in a residential area has been given a 12-year sentence.

A Dublin teenager who was part of a gang that tried to rob a cyclist after hitting him over the head with the lock for his bike has been given four years' detention for this and other offences.

A recovering heroin addict who robbed a pharmacy across the road from a garda station after he panicked when he smashed his bottle of methadone has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A 17-year-old youth who left a man in a coma by jumping on his head has been given a four-year prison sentence, with two suspended, by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man who was caught by gardaí when his getaway motorbike left without him after he had set a car on fire has had his prison sentence reduced from 10 to eight years.

A drunken father-of-three who told gardai he intended to use a dumbbell bar to "bleedin' kill" a man that a female friend had accused of sexually assaulting her has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin alcoholic heroin addict has been jailed for his part in a gang attack on a Polish couple on Dublin's Millennium Bridge which left them both unconscious and seriously injured.

A jury has disagreed in the trial of a young Dublin man accused of stabbing a local acquaintance in the back.

A seriously ill drug addict whose concealed syringe pricked two gardaí attempting to arrest her has received a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Romanian father-of-one who was caught by alert security guards retrieving a skimming device and camera from an ATM has recieved a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Swords "thug" who punched a 16-year-old boy in the face, knocking him to the ground because the victim had been looking at him, has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A man who launched "a brutal, savage and life changing attack" on a childhood acquaintance has been sentenced to four years in prison by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who along with others violently attacked a college student which led to the victim being thrown from a window on the top floor of a Dublin bus has been given a suspended sentence.

A deaf man who sexually assaulted his partner's friend after a New Year's Eve party in the couple's home has been given a seven-year prison sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A youth who viciously punched and kicked a man and then escaped from a garda and continued to beat him will be sentenced next week at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Christian brother has been jailed for one year by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he admitted to sexually assaulting four students in an industrial school 45 years ago.

A driver who left his dying friend in a car which he crashed after consuming up to eight drinks has been jailed for four years by Judge Frank O'Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 23-year-old man who discharged a sawn off shotgun through the sitting room window of a Ballyfermot house in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for seven years.

A teenage father-of-one whose unprovoked assault left a passer-by unconscious in a pool of blood on New Year's Day has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A Christian brother has been remanded in custody pending sentence after he admitted to sexually assaulting four students in an industrial school 45 years ago.

A young man has gone on trial for alleged people trafficking and holding a false document at Dublin Airport two years ago.

A Galway resident who held a woman at syringe point in her van in the car park of Liffey Valley shopping centre has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug-dealing couple have been released from custody to spend Christmas with their three children.

An addict who has been "in and out of jail for the last 13 years" has been given a seven years sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell for burglary and possessing shotgun ammunition and drugs.

A Somali refugee who brought an African drug called 'khat' from London, where it is legal, to Ireland, where it is illegal, has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who smashed a pint glass into a Bulgarian barman's head in a County Wicklow pub has been given one more chance by Judge Frank O'Donnell to avoid jail.

A retired Christian Brother has been found not guilty by direction of Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of indecently assaulting a young girl some 40 years ago.

The trial of a retired Christian Brother accused of indecent assault on a young girl 40 years ago has continued with legal argument in the absence of the jury.

A group of teenagers whose violent attack on a college student led to the man being thrown from a window on the top floor of a Dublin bus have been remanded for sentence next month.

A handcuffed man jumped out of the vehicle transporting him to prison, while it slowed at traffic lights, the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

A 19-year-old father-of-one, whose unprovoked assault on a passer-by on New Years Day left him unconscious in a pool of blood, has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The owner of a children's clothing store in Swords whose vicious stabbing left his victim's intestines protruding from his body has been jailed for 10 years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who recieved a suspended sentence for concealing information from gardaí about the violent death of one of his friends has had two years of that sentence reactivated after he was convicted of new offences.

A Ballyfermot man who assaulted a taxi driver, leaving him with a fractured skull, while on bail for ramming a Garda car with stolen car he had driven at 160 kilometres per hour, has been given a six-year sentence.

Sentence on a former Garda sergeant for child trafficking has been adjourned due to his hospitalisation following a suicide attempt last Friday.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of a brother of the De La Salle order accused of abusing a former resident at a childrens institution for young offenders over twenty years ago.

A brother of the De La Salle order has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of abusing a former resident at a children's institution for young offenders more than 20 years ago.

n engineer has given evidence at the trial of a man accused of stabbing another in the abdomen causing his intestines to protrude from his body, that lighting conditions at the scene were "very dark".

The jury in the trial of a 36 year-old man accused of stabbing another man causing him serious harm, has heard that a youth made a statement to gardaí following the incident during which he identified the accused from a set of 12 photographs shown to him.

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.

A 26-year-old Clondalkin man who hid cocaine valued at nearly €40,000 in his bedroom at his parents' home has been jailed for ten years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial arising out of the stabbing of a man whose intestines were left protruding from his body has continued with legal issues in the absence of the jury before Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man whose bowel and intestines were left protruding from his body in an attack seven years ago has refused to give evidence at the trial of a man accused of stabbing him.