An expectant teenage mother has received a two-year suspended sentence after she was one of a 'group of thugs' that set upon a man and an off-duty garda who had come to the aid of a theft victim.

A drug addict who robbed the same building society twice and then headbutted a garda when he escaped from court will not spend any extra time in prison because of his current 20-year sentence for other offences.

A man who robbed the same building society twice will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two detectives lied under oath while giving evidence at the trial of a man accused of being involved in the Omagh bombings, a court heard today.