A teenager who knocked a woman off her bike, beat her up, and stole her groceries has avoided a jail sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who knocked a woman off her bike, beat her up, and stole her groceries said he was so drunk and stoned he had “no idea” what he was doing.

Independent TDs Luke “Ming” Flanagan and Finian McGrath are entitled to orders stopping any further use of a large split-level car park alleged to have caused “chaos” in Tuam town, to be a safety risk to local children, and to have adversely impacted on the medieval town’s architectural heritage, the High Court has ruled.

A Meath man has been convicted of the theft of almost €315,000 worth of tobacco products and the unlawful use of a car.

A delivery driver has told a jurytoday that he and his co-worker were falsely imprisoned during a robbery of over €300,000 worth of tobacco products.