A criminal couple who worked together to rob a man at syringe-point, after he accepted a lift from the woman outside a Leeson Street disco, have been ordered to carry out 240 hours community service by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A GEORGIAN man with Hepatitis C who spat blood into the mouth of a garda who came to his aid after he was assaulted was yesterday jailed for two years.

The two gardai, who died this morning in a road accident in Cork City, have been named.