An schoolboy, who was held hostage during a violent ‘tiger’ kidnapping five years ago, was yesterday awarded damages of €17,250 in the Circuit Civil Court against Bank of Ireland.

A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardaí and the ESB.

A four-year-old schoolgirl who was left scarred after she was burnt on the chest by hot soup in a crèche, has been awarded €50,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A Dublin mother of two who slashed another woman across the face with a Stanley knife, leaving her with a permanent scar, has received a four-year sentence.

A private investigator is facing trial accused of unlawfully obtaining and passing on information gardaí had on three people.

A judge has thrown out a Revenue prosecution brought against a company owned by TD Michael Lowry because a court summons was served at an out-of-date address.

A young mother stabbed her friend in the face with a fork, leaving her with permanent scar, a court has heard

A man accused of murdering his friend using a rock told gardaí “I only hit him about two or three times”.

A woman detained in 1993 on suspicion of her husband’s murder told a garda she liked that she didn’t know if she could trust the detectives interviewing her but that she was ready to tell her story.

A young Dublin woman who assaulted a man with a broken bottle at Shankill Dart station after a verbal altercation between two groups of youths has been given a two year suspended sentence.

A Wicklow youth who blinded a nurse in one eye by throwing a egg at her from a passing car will carry out community service in lieu of three years jail time.

A reforming drug addict has received a four-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a string of burglaries committed in one month while he was on bail for possession of heroin.

A Shankill father of one has been given a three-year suspended sentence for possession of cannabis pollen at his home by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Wicklow resident who hit a garda over the head with a glass bottle while another garda was trying to arrest his younger sister has today been given community service instead of a jail term.

A father of three who continued to deal drugs after being caught with a €73,000 heroin stash has been given an eight-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE ISPCC last night called for the speedy arrest of a man charged with sex offences who jumped bail while enjoying the benefits of anonymity.

A young rugby player who assaulted the 14-year-old son of a garda has been ordered to carry out 25 hours community service in lieu of three months imprisonment.