A judge has warned he is going to start jailing young people who engage in money laundering for criminal gangs, as cases continue to come before the courts.

The getaway driver in an attempted armed robbery of a Dublin pub has been jailed for 18 months.

 A man who fraudulently claimed over €65,000 in social welfare payments and was detected using facial-imaging technology has been given a three and half year suspended sentence.

 A judge has jailed for 15 years a Westmeath man he said had “murderous intent” during a brutal assault in which the victim was stabbed 16 times before being set alight.