A Mayo man whose companion used a garrote on a taxi driver when they robbed him at a halting site has been jailed for three years by Judge Rory Maccabe at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug dealer who was caught by a plain clothes garda stealing two boxes of jewellery and clothes from a delivery van has been given a three year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Somalia national resident in Wicklow who attacked the arthritic father of his ex-partner after kicking-in his front door has been given a two year suspended sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan.

The DPP have dropped new charges against one of the men previously accused of unlawful carnal knowledge until the Supreme Court "C-case" ruling on the unconstitutionality of the legislation.

A heroin addict who stole €9,000 from his then 81-year-old grandmother to buy drugs and his accomplice have been given five-year suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A heroin addict who stole €9,000 from his then 81-year-old grandmother to buy drugs has been remanded on bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A student who caused almost €29,000 worth of damage when he set fire to a primary school classroom "just out of boredom" has been given two years detention.

A 22 year-old woman has denied slashing another woman's face with a broken glass in the VIP section of Club M in Dublin's Temple Bar area after they had an argument over a stool.