A man who threatened two detectives executing a search warrant at his house that they would meet the same fate as a murdered garda colleague has been jailed for three years.

An industrial flooring firm and one of its former directors have been sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court accused of breaking competition laws by engaging in price-fixing to win contracts.

A 30-year-old man has been found not guilty of aggravated sexual assault by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.

A former priest who sexually abused a young boy over 30 years ago and fled the country because of “adverse publicity” before gardaí could interview him has been jailed for one year by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Gardaí attempting to investigate the abuse of an alter boy by a priest were “given the run around by Church authorities” in their efforts to locate the accused man for questioning.