A woman arrested for a public order offence including spitting in the direction of a Garda later said she would get him sacked as she was friends with the judge and “he will sort me out”.

A young Dublin man who "terrified" staff and patrons at a pub with a gun because he was refused entry has been sentenced to nine years in jail with two suspended.

A YOUNG man was remanded yesterday in connection with the shooting of a doorman at a nightclub in Dublin at the weekend.