A Latvian woman who threw her partner’s six-year-old child against a wall and beat him with a mop while she was drunk has received a two-and-a-half year suspended sentence.

A man who repeatedly stabbed a life-long friend after a drink and drugs binge and called gardaí himself after leaving the man he believed he had killed alone in the flat for an hour has been sentenced to six years in prison.

An Ulster Bank porter who stole €75,000 from the bank to repay debts he ran up in a "fanciful and unrealistic scheme" of exchanging Irish ‘punts’ for Sterling ‘pounds’ at a loss to himself, has been ordered to carry out 240 hours work in the community.