A repeat teen offender has been given a six-month sentence by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court on his 27th criminal conviction.

A boy, who began to harass a former friend’s family and threatened to kill them and their children, has been put on probation for one year.

A 15-year-old boy, who was part of a violent gang that attacked gardaí with kicks, bites, punches, stones and bottles and hit a female garda on the stomach with a brick, has decided he wants to be detained for two years.

Two 15-year-old boys that were part of a gang that attacked gardaí with stones and bottles and hit a female Garda on the stomach with a brick, were back on the streets within two hours of receiving two-year sentences.

Two 15-year-old boys, who were part of a violent gang that attacked gardaí with stones and bottles and hit a female Garda on the stomach with a brick, have been detained for two years by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court today.