A mother of one has been sentenced to three years in prison for staging her housemate’s suicide in order to impede the prosecution of the man who strangled her.

A forecourt attendant who stole nearly €50,000 from a transport company through credit card fraud at the garage where he worked for 28 years has been given a four-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A cocaine-addicted father-of-one who robbed a bookmaker's armed with a small samurai sword has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A heroin addicted father of two told gardaí he hijacked a woman's car just after she put her infant child in the vehicle and then tried to rob a pharmacy because he wanted to be put back in prison.

A heroin addict who hailed a taxi outside a pharmacy while his accomplices were inside holding up staff with a barbecue fork has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.