A chronic heroin addict who chased a 13-year-old boy wielding a knife and hammer and "terrorised" the boys’ sisters during a burglary has been given a 13-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 'crack cocaine' addict who held a syringe to a six-year-old girl sitting in the back-seat of a car, has been jailed for seven years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

I AM writing a bilingual book on the rosary and I would like to invite readers to send me unpublished native prayers on the rosary either in Irish or English.