A postman who stored over €1m worth of cannabis in bushes near his home to repay a debt has been given an eight year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 14-year-old girl, who has left two elderly women traumatised and terrified in their own homes after she violently forced her way past their front doors, has been remanded in custody.

A man who bit-off a piece of another man’s nose in a drink and drug-fuelled fight over a missing €50 has been jailed for four years by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.