A former barrister who stole €235,000 from a businessman by pretending to buy him a warehouse in Co Kildare will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A senior claims manager who defrauded her employer out of €220,000 over six years so she could pay off a spiralling drug debt has received a two and half year suspended sentence.

A Garda and former senior Kilkenny hurler who lost partial vision after he was run down by a getaway car in a robbery at a Glanbia plant was yesterday awarded almost €280,000 damages in the High Court.

A 15-year-old Dublin boy is stand trial accused of inflicting a “life threatening” slash wound to a barman's face during a knife attack in Temple Bar.