A reformed alcoholic who carried out regular, “depraved and outrageous” sexual assaults on two brothers who had “adopted him as their father” has been jailed for four and half years.

A former taxi driver who was caught through a garda intelligence operation with almost €4.2m worth of cannabis resin has been jailed for 12 years for this and another drug offence.

A man who has no recollection of setting fire to the top deck of a bus - causing an estimated €109,467 worth of damage - has given a four year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Limerick man, accused of stabbing a 59-year-old man to death, told gardaí he did not intend to kill the deceased man but had been trying to help him, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.