A mother and child escaped through the back window of their home when a wheelie bin was set on fire beside their front door, it was claimed yesterday.

A young man who was so intent on getting back to his flat — even though the building was sealed off as a crime scene following a fire — caught a garda protecting the area by the throat.

A robber who raided two shops in five minutes in order to get cash to bring his girlfriend out for Valentine’s night has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Limerick woman bit one garda and slammed a patrol car door into another, injuring both, when being arrested, a court heard.

A man who had great hopes as a soccer player in his teens and once got a trial with Glasgow Celtic, hit the bottle when it didn’t work out and yesterday ended up being jailed for six months.

A serving county councillor who had headed a Joint Policing Committee was yesterday convicted of a drink driving charge.

The right of gardaí to enter onto the driveway of a private house in pursuance of an investigation was challenged in a court case in Cork yesterday.

A west Dublin man has been jailed for three and a half years for indecently assaulting his niece over 30 years ago.

A 16-year-old boy, who worked as a look-out and selected a young woman as potential theft victim for his accomplice, has been remanded on bail pending sentence by Judge David Anderson at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A DUBLINER who is accused of threatening to kill his wife and members of An Garda Síochána with a hatchet was brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

Eamonn Barry looks like facing a big task if he is to hold onto his position as Meath senior football manager.

A garda accused of assaulting a protester at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ march in Dublin has claimed in evidence that he was justified in striking the man three times in the "upper body" but denied he ever hit him in the head.

A GARDA was stabbed and a female colleague kicked in the head and body within hours of each other in two separate assaults in Cork.

A GARDA was stabbed and a colleague had his wrist broken after they were attacked by a man who they tried to arrest on suspicion of drink driving over the weekend.