The owner of a children's clothing store in Swords whose vicious stabbing left his victim's intestines protruding from his body has been jailed for 10 years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father who agreed to sell more than €10,000 worth of cannabis to try to raise a deposit for a flat so that he could get custody of his daughter has been jailed by Judge Desmond Hogan.

A man whose bowel and intestines were left protruding from his body in an attack seven years ago has refused to give evidence at the trial of a man accused of stabbing him.

The concluding stages have been reached in the trial of a man for having cannabis valued almost €700,000 in a van in boxes which he claimed he believed contained stolen footwear he was to deliver "for an easy €500".