A carer for an elderly lady has received a three-year suspended sentence for stealing over €30,000 from the retired school teacher.

A carer for an elderly lady will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after she stole over é30,000 from the retired school teacher.

A former apprentice butcher who stole over €49,000 from his employer during a “drug-induced paranoia” in the early hours of Christmas Eve last year has had his sentence adjourned.

Two youths arrested over a cannabis seizure worth €40,000 in Finglas, in Dublin, in January, had their charges struck out today due to a delay obtaining directions from the DPP.

A 49-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday charged with the murder of a nightclub security man.