A mother of four who hid almost €40,000 worth of heroin in a baby’s pram when gardaí raided her home has been remanded on bail pending sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A man who recieved a suspended sentence for concealing information from gardaí about the violent death of one of his friends has had two years of that sentence reactivated after he was convicted of new offences.

Two youths appeared in court yesterday charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old man in north Dublin last September.

A former soldier who slit his brother's throat and tried to strangle him in an unprovoked, drunken assault has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Michael White.