Three children were inside the apartment with their mother, who said her youngest told her he was going to heaven and would come back and help them escape the fire.

A protester who was wrestled by the Canadian Ambassador at a 1916 commemoration ceremony in Dublin has been given a chance to avoid a criminal record.

A homeless man caught defecating in the communal garden of an apartment block has been given a one- month suspended sentence for trespassing.

A Mauritian national who shook his eight-week-old son causing him serious lifelong injuries has been given a five-year sentence with the final two suspended on condition he return to his home country.