Three young children were found in a highly distressed and dirty state at a house party in Carrigaline where gardaí found many empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia, including needles, tinfoil, and burnt spoons, on the floor.

Three young children were found in a highly distressed state at a house party in Carrigaline where gardaí found many empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia including needles, tinfoil and burnt spoons on the floor.

A student on the bus home to Kerry was caught by the throat by a drunken man who mocked him as a homosexual and when another passenger came to the student’s assistance this man was later struck on the hand with a knife.

A man with a nodge of cannabis bucked the trend of discarding the drug as the gardaí approached — and proved the exception to the rule by deciding to pick it up as the gardaí arrived.

A businessman who bit a young woman in a nightclub, has been given a four-month suspended prison setence.