A chronic drug addict has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being caught robbing the same Dublin pub with a sawn-off shotgun for the second time in six years.

A man had to have part of his bowel removed after he was stabbed in the stomach by his girlfriend's ex-partner following an ongoing dispute between the two men.

A chronic alcoholic and drug addict has been given a consecutive six-and-a-half years sentence to start at the end of a recently imposed two years term.