A judge has ordered that a teen with intellectual disabilities who defiled a young child should remain in the care of the HSE.

A Chinese man who stole over €50,000 from his employer over a three-year period has been jailed for three years.

A young Dublin man has been sentenced to six years with three suspended for possessing €36,000 of cannabis resin stored in the passenger foot well of a taxi.

A Ballybrack man receieved a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in the 'Love Ulster' riots in the city centre two years ago.

A Kerry-born psychiatric nurse who made video tapes of himself engaged in sexual activities with children from the ages of four to 13 has been jailed for six years by Judge Des Hogan.