A taxi driver who carried cocaine valued at over €250,000 in his cab for "a few hundred euro" to help pay off his loans has been jailed for nine years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug addict who robbed the same building society twice and then headbutted a garda when he escaped from court will not spend any extra time in prison because of his current 20-year sentence for other offences.

A heroin addict who hailed a taxi outside a pharmacy while his accomplices were inside holding up staff with a barbecue fork has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.