Without Childline the sexual abuse of a young Sligo girl would never have come to light, Mr Justice Paul Butler said at the Central Criminal Court when he jailed her father for four years.

A pensioner who held heroin worth €150,000 for a drug-dealer has been jailed for two years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A pensioner who was holding on to heroin worth €150,000 for a drug-dealer has had his sentence adjourned until October 25 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.