A heroin addict who stabbed his friend in an argument over drugs told gardaí in interview that he wanted the man’s family to know he was sorry and that it was an accident, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A man who grabbed a woman late at night in Dublin city centre, telling her “you drank too much, bitch”, has been sentenced to three years in jail, with the final year suspended.

A Dublin barman stabbed a man with a steak knife after finding him in bed with his ex-partner, a court has heard.

Two men have been given community service for their role in abducting a recovering addict, driving him around the Dublin Mountains and threatening him over his friend’s alleged debt.

A man who was caught by gardaí after an app in an iPhone he had just stolen tracked him down has been jailed for 33 months for three burglaries.

A man who sexually abused his daughter for a decade from when she was just 3 has been jailed for two years.

A man who sexually abused his two young nieces after asking them to play games of “nerves” or “tickles” has been sentenced to eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Trinity College student who sold cannabis grass to his friends in order to help him pay his way through college has been given a three year suspended sentence and ordered to complete 240 hours community service.

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.