A teenage boy shot two men with an “improvised firearm” and attacked another person with a stick during rioting at Dublin's Smithfield horse fair in March, a court heard today.

Four Dublin men today became the first to be charged under tough new anti-gangland legislation.

A FÁS executive was charged today with 47 counts of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000.

Two schoolboys charged in relation to a sustained street attack on an Egyptian national, who was allegedly beaten with a rock and a metal pole, are to face trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

MORE than 50 Garda cars and a police helicopter were involved in a high-speed chase with a 16-year-old boy across west Dublin in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A 15-year-old boy once described by a Garda Inspector as a “menace” has been detained for five months by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A teenager, who was caught rolling up a cannabis joint at the Dublin Children’s Courthouse, has been fined €50 today.

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a recovering teenage heroin addict facing over 30 charges including one for an attempted break-in at the Irish headquarters of the Jesuit Order.

A teenager charged in connection with a burglary where a man and woman were allegedly attacked with a sword has been released on conditional bail.

A teenager, who took part in a gang attack on a Polish boy, who was repeatedly kicked and stamped on, has today given a six-month sentence by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A teenager was remanded in custody today after he was charged in connection with a burglary where a man and woman were allegedly attacked with a samurai sword.

The parents of a teenage thief are to be arrested after they failed to attend their son’s sentence hearing in the Dublin Children’s Court.

A 17-year-old boy who assaulted two Spanish students, who were punched, kicked and dragged along the ground during an unprovoked attack, was today put on probation for nine months and spared a custodial sentence.

A repeat teen offender has been given a six-month sentence by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court on his 27th criminal conviction.

A 17-year-old boy, who took part in an assault on a man who claimed his head was used like a football as his attackers took “penalty kicks”, was given a six-month sentence at the Dublin Children’s Court yesterday.

A 16-year-old boy was brought before the Children’s Court today charged in connection with a drugs seizure worth €150,000 in Dublin last weekend.

The case of a 15-year-old charged with illegally possessing a stun gun, has been adjourned pending efforts to obtain psychiatric reports on his mental age.

A teenager has admitted launching a serious attack on a man and woman he mistook for two gay men.

A youth who made off with €530 when he took part in a raid of a petrol station armed with a screwdriver, has been given a six month sentence by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A 16-year-old schoolboy, who was in a stolen car that rammed gardaí and nearly mowed down pedestrians when it raced around Dublin city centre’s south-side, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A 17-year-old boy, who has allegedly burgled schools, a college and the offices of a government department, during a recent crime wave, has been remanded on bail, by the Dublin Children’s Court.

A charge against a 15-year-old boy arrested for mugging a man who was allegedly hit with a bottle and left with shards of glass lodged under his eye, was struck out at the Dublin Children’s Court today.

A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court of taking part in an assault on a man who claimed his head was used like a football as his attackers took “penalty kicks".

A schoolboy was today charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Leaving Certificate student last May.

A teenager, who raced a motorcycle along a busy train station platform, has been given a two-month sentence and a ten-year road ban, by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court.