A 45-year-old mother of two who has accused a nun of indecent assaults told a court yesterday of separate incidents of child sexual abuse by men.

A young woman has avoided a jail term after she fraudulently claimed more than €35,000 in social welfare payments which she handed over to her father, extended family and drug addict boyfriend.

A former security worker who staged a 'tiger' kidnapping which involved his housemates being bound with cable ties and threatened at gunpoint has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

An expectant teenage mother has received a two-year suspended sentence after she was one of a 'group of thugs' that set upon a man and an off-duty garda who had come to the aid of a theft victim.