A Dublin man who got into bed on top of an elderly widow and tried to pull up her night dress after dropping her home from a local party has received a three year suspended sentence.

A Tallaght man who burgled the family home of a man he saved from drowning in the canal has been jailed for three years.

A Tallaght man will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for burgling the family home of a man he saved from drowning in the canal.

A convicted murderer and drug dealer has been jailed for two years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he was found in possession of €1,980 worth of cocaine.