Four gardaí have been acquitted of forcing entry to a Basin Street flat, trespass and assaulting a teenage occupant.

A garda witness has told a trial she could hear moaning and screaming from the bedroom of the flat of a young Dublin man accusing four gardaí of assault.

Four gardaí have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for allegedly forcing their way into a flat without a warrant and beating up a male occupant.

A Clondalkin man who sold "dynamite cocaine" to an undercover garda three times during an operation specifically designed to catch street dealers has been given a two years suspended sentence.

A "mid level drug dealer" who was caught selling heroin twice in a fortnight by plain clothes gardaí posing as drug addicts has received a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.