A teenager charged over a burglary in Dublin where an elderly woman suffered a broken finger when an engagement ring was forcibly taken from her, was remanded on conditional bail today.

A drug dealer who was involved in the vicious assault of a taxi-driver who was hit with a brick while face down in a river has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug dealer who held a taxi-driver's face down in a river while a co-accused hit him with a brick has been jailed for eight years in consecutive sentences by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.