A reformed drug addict has offered two women he robbed at knife point €10,000 compensation each after receiving an award from the Residential Institutions Redress Board for "horrific" abuse suffered as a child.

A Swords man who told the security guard of a supermarket he had just robbed that he knew where he lived and would shoot him if he did not let let him go free has been given a three-year sentence.

A relapsed drug addict who threatened and assaulted a Chinese restaurant owner causing the man to sell his business has been given a four year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Polish national who hacked into a fellow-national’s e-mail to find her Irish address after she fled his long obsession and harassment has been given five years imprisonment in consecutive terms.