Two Dublin men have been sentenced for their part in an incident where a Romanian man was shot in the neck.

An unemployed man who cultivated cannabis plants at his home in order to feed his drug habit and so he wouldn’t be “dealing with scumbags” has been ordered to perform 180 hours of community service.

A crack cocaine addict who ambushed a foreign national on the street and sexually assaulted her after telling her she should not be in the country has been given a three-year sentenc

A Kildare man who was caught over €5,000 worth of heroin that he was going to sell to four or five friends has been sentenced to three years by Judge Desmond Hogan.

A Detective Garda today admitted it was a serious matter that a number of the interview notes from a prime suspect in a murder went missing.