A 17-year-old who conned 22 people out of over €8,500 through a scheme of advertising non-existent concert tickets and iPhones online has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

A Chinese man who sexually assaulted a woman and mugged and beat a young girl has been given a three-year suspended sentence on condition that he leave the country immediately and not return for 15 years.

A Chinese man who sexually assaulted a woman and mugged and beat a young girl is “no longer welcome in this country” according to Judge Patrick McCartan.

Ardara, on the edge of Donegal’s western seaboard, became another town blackened by allegations of garda corruption after an arson attack on a telecommunications mast and an explosive was planted at it in November 1996.

A row erupted in a Donegal garda station over the detention of a suspect arrested following the discovery of an explosive device at a telecoms mast, a garda told the Morris Tribunal today.