A senior garda told a court yesterday that a number of residents “were in fear of their lives” over the staging of an unofficial boy-racer rally in Clare last year.

Two men were refused bail today after they were charged with false imprisonment and robbery of €134,000 in connection with a Tiger kidnapping in Dublin last January.

A father-of-two has been sentenced to four years with 18 months suspended for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.

A father-of-two is to be sentenced early next year for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.

A Clondalkin man who hijacked a car and then drove it at a householder has been remanded for sentence on June 10 next by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.