A young member of the Garda Drug Squad, who was repeatedly stabbed and seriously injured while affecting an arrest, was yesterday awarded what is believed to be a record €1.1m damages in the High Court.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with making a threat to kill a barrister in an alleged incident at the Four Courts in Dublin last year.

A Wicklow woman who embezzled over €34,000 from her employer to sustain an alcohol addiction she developed following a period of post natal depression has escaped a jail term.

A pair of drug addicts who robbed two friends at knife point while posing as undercover gardai have been jailed by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.