After being told by a defence lawyer that the State had failed in coming up with alternatives to jail when dealing with young offenders, a judge yesterday ordered a year-long night curfew at home for a troubled Limerick teenager rather than locking him up.

A garda has told how she feared for her life as a speeding car with a 16-year-old youth at the wheel tried to mow her down when she was on foot patrol in Limerick.

A judge yesterday rejected a defence claim that a major Garda operation in Limerick in which gardaí posed as prostitutes was entrapment.

A woman was told she was digging her own grave and it was “very easy to make people disappear” by a Limerick man accused of threatening to kill her and three of her children, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A mother-of-five was told she was digging her own grave and that it was “very easy to make people disappear” by a Limerick man accused of threatening to kill her and three of her children, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A man who dragged a garda along with his car after refusing to stop for him has been jailed for two and half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An Offaly electrician who seriously assaulted a man after being hit from behind in a Dublin pub toilet has been given a four-year sentence.

A dead garda who was wrongly blamed for forged witness expenses today had his reputation cleared in front of his family.

Dishonest transactions were not normal practice at Sligo garda station, a former garda who was prosecuted for passing on false loss of earnings certificates said today.

A retired Garda today denied that he was blaming a dead colleague for forgeries to cover his own tracks.