Youths aged 13 down to eight were engaged in a riot during which they burned down a barn owned by former Limerick hurler, Jimmy Carroll, a judge was told.

A Wicklow resident who was paid €60 to hold nearly half a million euro worth of heroin has been sentenced to seven years in jail, with three suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A man who terrorised his neighbours in a drunken early morning attack while wearing only his boxer shorts and assaulted a garda has been given a four year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.