The grandmother of a protesting inmate was lifted up in a hoist to try to talk him down from a prison roof, a court has heard.

Gardaí objected to bail being granted to an 19-year-old because of the extent of the violence as he allegedly put his mother in fear at the family home on Sunday.

A woman with 234 convictions who stole a handbag from an elderly woman using a walking frame has been jailed for three years.

A Kildare trucker whose business failed when it lost a lucrative contract with the Irish Times has been given a suspended sentence for transporting almost €250,000 of drugs.

A chronic drug addict who walked into a Dublin chapel and robbed the collection money at syringe point from a priest has received a seven-year sentence for this and other crimes.

A Dublin man who previously shot a bouncer in the face and assaulted two gardaí has been given an two-year sentence for stealing a van.

The trial of two Lithuanian men charged with murdering a woman in Wexford last year has heard that the victim died of blunt force trauma to the head.

A man who drove a stolen taxi directly at a Garda checkpoint and later swerved towards a patrol van after gardaí ran to avoid being hit has been sentenced to six years for this and other offences.

A taxi driver who was caught with cannabis resin valued at €114,000 has been given a seven-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A convicted drug dealer who was caught driving a stolen motorbike while he was on bail awaiting sentence for selling heroin has been jailed for 12 months by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

The "warehouse man" in a drugs racket has been jailed for 12 years for possessing over €1m worth of cannabis and cocaine in Dublin city centre two-years ago.

An expert witness told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Garda Paul Daly hit a protester with his baton on the junction of Parliament St and Dame St during the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May Day 2002.

A multimedia student who made a documentary of the Mayday 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration has told a jury he thought protesters believed they were being playful when they surrounded and rocked a garda car.

Senior officers have identified each of the three gardaí on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Limerick man who was a passenger in a stolen car was arrested by Special Branch detectives investigating Continuity IRA activity, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A man who fired a shotgun blast into the rear window of a former RTE's Treasure Island contestant's car because he wrongly believed he was having an affair with his partner has been jailed for three years by Judge Desmond Hogan.

A fingerprint on a plastic bag found near where a 22-year-old woman was found dead in Co Cork in 2000 matched those of the accused, a murder trial jury heard today.