Horrific emails were allegedly sent by a man to his own mother, including one in which he referred to her plans to sell her house and in which he asked how the sale would be affected by someone being killed there.

A woman who stole €16,000 from a children’s credit union savings account has avoided a jail sentence on condition she repays the bulk of the money she took.

A teenager who broke into a pensioner’s home 15 minutes after his release on bail from a garda station has been jailed for three years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.