A former bus driver described as an international drugs trafficker has been jailed for 13 years after he solicited undercover gardaí to act as drug mules.

A young Dublin man who kicked a Lithuanian cyclist in the face and fractured his jaw has been jailed for 18 months.

A PRISON officer, said by a judge to have been responsible for a “colossal breach of trust” for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Limerick prison was yesterday jailed for five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A youth convicted of attacking a garda whom he tried to push him off a third-floor flat complex balcony has been given a five-months detention sentence.

A 15-year-old thief, who stole €200 from a woman as she was making a withdrawal from an ATM on Dublin’s Grafton Street, received a six-month suspended sentence at the Children’s Court today.