A man who sexually abused his step-daughter over 100 times has been sentenced to eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A chronic drug addict has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being caught robbing the same Dublin pub with a sawn-off shotgun for the second time in six years.

A father of one who rammed a garda vehicle off the road and attempted to drive straight into another during a high-speed chase in a stolen car has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Patricia Ryan.

A drunken father-of-three who told gardai he intended to use a dumbbell bar to "bleedin' kill" a man that a female friend had accused of sexually assaulting her has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Cabra cousins who launched an attack on gardai arresting a youth in their neighbourhood leaving a female garda suffering chronic back pain have had sentencing adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A chronic alcoholic and drug addict has been given a consecutive six-and-a-half years sentence to start at the end of a recently imposed two years term.