A drug addict has been sentenced to six years in prison with two suspended for trying to rob a shop with a replica gun and attacking a foreign national.

A drug addict who tried to rob a shop armed with a replica gun was disarmed and chased down the street by a brave employee, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

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.

A man on trial for murder allegedly named the two gunmen he drove to and from the shooting of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Senior, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.