A Laois resident who used a false PPS number to claim over €15,000 in unemployment benefits has received a two-year suspended sentence.

A man who was caught by gardaí after an app in an iPhone he had just stolen tracked him down has been jailed for 33 months for three burglaries.

A man who fired five times at a patrol car with a shotgun before pointing it directly at a plain clothes garda has been jailed for four years.