A "passionate environmentalist" who caused damage totalling €3m in an arson attack on the Irish headquarters of the Jesuit Order has been given a five-year sentence.

A man who stabbed an acquaintance during a fight at a Christmas party leaving his victim permanently paralysed from the chest down has been sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Nigerian teenage asylum seeker, who was heavily involved in the sale of crack cocaine in inner city Dublin, has been released on six-month suspended sentence.

A Nigerian teenage asylum seeker has been remanded in custody pending a pre-sentence probation report after pleading guilty to trafficking in €3,000 worth of crack cocaine.

Judge Bryan Smyth refused to grant bail to a Nigerian teenage asylum seeker charged with dealing in crack cocaine.