A drug addict who broke into Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey and his entrepreneur partner Sarah Newman’s home and stole credit cards has been given a two-year sentence with the final year suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former military bodyguard has been jailed for six years for importing cocaine into the country hidden in a car’s battery.

A priest who was falsely accused of rape pleaded for leniency for the Dublin city man who claimed he had abused him as a child.

The daughter of a 52-year-old woman who died in a fire sobbed tonight as she told how she rang her mother as she was trapped in the burning house.