A Dublin man who chased a nurse, grabbed a patient’s drip and spat blood at gardaí during a violent hospital outburst has been given a four-year sentence.

A 27-year-old drug addict who was “highly strung out” on a concoction of drugs is to be sentenced in July for assault on two gardai and theft of drugs from a pharmacy.

Two more men have given evidence of having been sexually abused by a Christian Brother in a Galway industrial school some 40 years ago.

A former heroin addict who attacked his neighbour with a hatchet because the music at his daughter’s confirmation celebration party was too loud has been given a four year sentence.

An experienced Garda today said he felt uneasy when a colleague revealed he had made a secret recording of an interview with a drugs suspect, at which both officers were present.

There is no evidence to back up an accusation a senior Donegal garda planted drugs on a man he arrested at a nightclub, it was claimed today.

A 22 year-old Carlow man on trial for murder was "adamant" that the knife he threatened his 17 year-old victim with made impact because the victim’s girlfriend swung him around in the direction of the knife.