GARDAÍ yesterday objected to an application for bail by a man charged with distributing child pornography.

A Balbriggan teenager will be sentenced next week for a crime spree which included violently robbing an elderly man, mugging several train commuters and breaking a girl's collarbone and a garda's nose.

A north Dublin man has been jailed for a year by Judge Martin Nolan for dangerous driving causing the death of one of his closest friends when racing another car in Lusk two years ago.