A man who failed to appear in a Dublin district court for alleged trespass was later reported as possibly being lost at sea, and spent three weeks on the water before being escorted ashore.

A man who beat an elderly trophy-maker with his own trophies before robbing him of IR£130 has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Fingerprints belonging to one of seven men on trial for membership of the Continuity IRA were found on a note seized during a suspected meeting of dissident republicans, the Special Criminal Court has heard.