A civil servant in the Department of Justice has told a judge that gardaí who broke into his Dublin flat five years ago searched his belongings and said to him: “We are searching for bombs, bullets, and guns.”

A drug addict who told gardaí he was "sick of jabbing myself to death" has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of heroin valued €153,000.