Gardaí are looking to have further charges brought against a 24-year-old man accused of rape and false imprisonment of a Spanish student in Dublin, a court has heard.

A man who robbed a Brazilian escort in a Dublin hotel room and put a knife to her throat has been sentenced to three years in prison, with the final 18 months suspended.

A Dublin man who fraudulently lived off Irish disability benefits for almost two years while in Malaysia, where he quit drugs and started a family, has been given suspended jail terms totalling 12 months.