A homeless man pleading not guilty to murdering a Dublin pensioner told gardaí he “lost the head” and “hit the old fella in the chest twice” a court heard.

A Meath man has been jailed for six years for threatening to kill someone who “owed money” for drugs.

A postman who had never come to garda attention before and "was at a loss" to explain why he stabbed a man at a house party has been given a two-year prison sentence.