THE debate on whether the country’s uniformed gardaí should be armed split on an urban/rural divide yesterday.

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 in the family sitting room, because he feared a vicious criminal, has been given five years in jail by Judge Frank O’Donnell at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 and cocaine in the family sitting room has been granted compassionate bail by Judge Frank O’Donnell to spend Christmas with his widower father.

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 in the family sitting room has been remanded in custody for sentence later by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 17-year-old girl, who threatened to burn down a Garda’s home and then said she would slit his children’s throats after she attacked him, has been given the benefit of the Probation Act.