Two Cabra cousins who launched an attack on gardai arresting a youth in their neighbourhood leaving a female garda suffering chronic back pain have had sentencing adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A reformed drug addict has offered two women he robbed at knife point €10,000 compensation each after receiving an award from the Residential Institutions Redress Board for "horrific" abuse suffered as a child.

A father of three who came from a "volatile and dysfunctional family" has been given a suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for threatening to infect gardaí with Hepatitis C.

A teenager who threw a glass bottle at a Garda patrol car, and missed, was today given the benefit of the Probation Act.

A 19-year-old Clondalkin man who drove the getaway car in the Pennies from Heaven charity robbery of €132,000-worth of old coins has been jailed for four years.

A Corkman who raped an Australian tourist and described by Mr Justice Barry White as "a danger and a menace to society and women", has been jailed for 18 years.

Garda Noel McMahon today again rejected claims that he prepared explosives for bogus arms finds in a bid to advance his career.

The State has failed in a bid to reactivate the six-year balance of a sentence on the brother of Brian Meehan. Brian Meehan is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin.