A man given eight years for seriously assaulting his wife, who refused to give evidence against him at trial, is to appeal his conviction in July.

A Polish Meath resident who bit off part of a man’s ear in an assault in McDonald’s on O’Connell Street has been given a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who was arrested recently while in possession of a heavy-duty handgun has had his bail on this matter upheld at a vacation sitting of Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he claimed he had been offered it for self defence following threats against his life.

A man accused of causing the death of a Dublin woman after going on the rampage with a bus was today remanded to the Central Mental Hospital for another seven weeks.