A serial possessor of child pornography who continued to view images of underage girls after being investigated by gardaí has been jailed for five years.

A Roscommon man who used a growling Alsatian dog to rob a pedestrian on the Dublin quays will be sentenced later.

A teenager who crashed into a stationary Garda Special Branch car, which was escorting former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, during a high-speed garda chase has today avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.