A grandmother who posted soiled underwear to a couple she had been harassing for years has been sentenced to three years in prison with the final two years suspended.

Two Chinese "bandits" have been given seven years sentences for their "brutal and vicious" armed robbery on female fellow-nationals in which they stabbed a garda who had helped foil their criminal escapade.

TWO Chinese men have been convicted of stabbing one garda and acquitted of causing serious harm to another who had helped to foil their robbery attempt on fellow nationals about three years ago.

Two Chinese men have been convicted of stabbing one garda and acquitted of causing serious harm to another who had helped to foil their robbery attempt on fellow-nationals almost three years ago.

Gardaí, who were repeatedly stabbed after foiling a gang trying to rob captives they were holding in a north city suburb, throught they were going to be killed by a balaclava-masked man wielding a knife, a court has heard today.