The former director of a hepatitis C support group, who stole €116,000 from the organisation, has been given a chance to raise compensation.

Two Dublin men who "stomped" on the head of their victim while he was lying on the ground leaving him with a serious head injury have avoided a jail term.

A teenage boy who was caught carrying out of bogus collection for the Irish Wheelchair Association on Dublin’s Dawson Street, has been released on probation for nine months.