A drug addict, who bound, gagged and strangled two women, who had previously given him food and money, during a “surreal” and “brutal” robbery has been jailed for six years.

A Dublin couple who stored over half a million euros worth of cannabis in their home have been given a seven year suspended sentence.

A young Dublin man with no previous convictions has been given a seven-year sentence with two suspended for possessing nearly €4m of heroin in his car.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Dublin man against the severity of the five year prison sentence he received as a result of being found in a car by the gardaí with a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition.

A situation where a 15-year-old male was left to babysit his six- and seven-year-old female cousins, while he was going through sexual development, may have been tolerated 30 years ago, but it would not be tolerated today said Judge Pat McCartan in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.