A father of one who waved a knife at gardai, threatened to kill them and kicked the wing mirror off a patrol car is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Trinity College student who sold cannabis grass to his friends in order to help him pay his way through college has been given a three year suspended sentence and ordered to complete 240 hours community service.

An Offaly man who forced a young woman to have sex with him three times a week by threatening her with sanctions from the IRA has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.