A man with Asperger’s syndrome who assaulted his mother was sentenced to a four-month prison term after efforts to get him into a residential medical facility to deal with his issues were exhausted.

A man with Asperger’s syndrome was remanded in continuing custody yesterday in a case where he was accused of knocking his mother on the floor of a shop and kicking her in the head.

A Ballincollig man who said he knew where a number gardaí lived and was going to burn down their homes was jailed for a year yesterday.

Mind-boggling difficulties were predicted by a judge yesterday for the abolition from Monday of prison sentences being a default for non-payment of court fines.

A Polish nanny who was paid €250 to mind a child, five days each week, yesterday confessed to stealing thousands of euro worth of jewellery and clothing from the family’s home