A contender for a national boxing title has avoided jail after pleading guilty to making threats to kill or cause serious harm.

A young Dublin mother has been given a two-year suspended sentence and 240 hours of community service for storing €39,000 of cocaine for another woman, who stands trial for murder.

Two drug addicts who caused fire damage totalling almost €324,000 after burgling a house have been remanded in custody for sentence by Judge Donagh McDonagh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.