A convicted sex offender who harassed his neighbour by following her into her apartment and ordering her to give him her underwear has been jailed for 18 months.

A convicted sex offender who harassed his neighbour by following her into her apartment and ordering her to give him her underwear is to be sentenced later.

A teenager who set fire to his drinking companion and burned him "to the bone" has been sentenced to 11 years by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.