A “diligent student” who was caught with €74,000 worth of heroin when he was sixteen has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Co Donegal man who booked a family holiday in Spain the day he was arrested for IRA membership was told by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he could not travel on the trip.

A Dublin man who was found weeping over his murdered brother’s body has received a four-year suspended sentence for aggravated burglary at a neighbouring home shortly after the killing.

A Kildare man with a gambling debt who in "a moment of weakness" stole €9,500 from his employer has been given a one year suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Kildare man who, in "a moment of weakness", stole €9,500 from the company he worked for in order to pay off a gambling debt has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Tallaght man who burgled the family home of a man he saved from drowning in the canal has been jailed for three years.

A Tallaght man will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for burgling the family home of a man he saved from drowning in the canal.

A Ballyfermot man who assaulted a taxi driver, leaving him with a fractured skull, while on bail for ramming a Garda car with stolen car he had driven at 160 kilometres per hour, has been given a six-year sentence.

A Dublin man will be sentenced later for throwing missiles at gardaí during the Love Ulster Parade riots in the city centre two years ago.

A love Ulster rioter who threw blocks at gardaí and helped to cause nearly €40,000 of damage to parked cars has been given a three year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 28-year-old heroin addict who committed a spate of burglaries and car theft across south Dublin, threatened a woman with a sword during a robbery and was found with a sawn off shotgun will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who attacked an undercover garda with a baton after mistaking him for a "skinhead" mugging his teenage brother has been given a three years suspended sentence and fined €6,000 by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.