A 30-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a man in his 60s blamed a garda for the case against him claiming the detective who arrested him was motivated by revenge because the accused once called him “a retard”.

A “diligent student” who was caught with €74,000 worth of heroin when he was sixteen has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

SANTA CLAUS was arrested in Cork city yesterday for kicking in a courthouse door — and with only a week to go to Christmas the man in red is in Cork Prison.

Three young men who attacked gardaí with a sword and a car battery and bit, kicked and punched them to try and obstruct an arrest have been sentenced to two and three year prison terms by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.