A 15-year-old Dublin boy has been sent forward for trial accused of being in a demolition gang of burglars who allegedly knocked down an interior house wall in a bid to remove a safe and steal jewellery.

A man has gone on trial accused of damaging a €10m Monet painting in the National Gallery and damaging two paintings in the Shelbourne Hotel.

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett was spared a conviction, fine and penalty points today despite admitting a speeding offence and giving a garda an out-of-date address.

A woman with schizophrenia who attacked a garda with a ten inch kitchen knife has been jailed for two years by Judge McDonagh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 19-year-old man who set two gardaí alight by throwing petrol bombs during riots at the Love Ulster parade in Dublin last February has been jailed for five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.