A man followed a garda around a court room shouting that he hoped she would “get run over by a bus”, a court has heard.

A teenager who hit the director of a children's detention centre on the head with a metal bar and smashed up the centre has been jailed for four years.

A pregnant woman, her partner and two young children awoke to find an intruder screaming and banging on their bed with a plank during a “profoundly frightening” burglary, a court has heard.

A man has been jailed for two and a half years for the “insidious and frightening” harassment of a woman at her workplace.

A school cleaner who stole over €100,000 in social welfare fraud over a 17-year period by pretending to be her sister has avoided a jail term.

A Leitrim man who sexually abused a boy in his community while calling him "a dirty little queer" has been jailed for eight years.

A woman with “an astronomical” amount of previous convictions will not face extra jail time for trying to stab a garda with a syringe despite a prosecution appeal.

A drug dealer has raised with a Circuit Court judge the issue of today’s Court of Appeal ruling that the illegality of certain drugs is now unconstitutional.

A man who pointed a bolt action rifle at gardaí in “a threatening and aggressive manner” has been jailed for seven years for this, a burglary and a “mini riot” in a detention centre.

A judge has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a garda charged with harassing a woman after the accused failed to appear for a court date.

A university student - who jumped out of a window and broke his leg in an attempt to escape security guards - was stealing computers because he wanted to design a computer game called “Angry Pigs” to rival the popular “Angry Birds“, a court has heard.

A man who robbed pension savings from an 88-year-old woman by posing as a council worker has been sentenced to two years in prison.

A Killiney man who broke a teenager’s eye socket with a single punch in a case of mistaken identity has been given a two and half year suspended sentence.

A 22-year-old with 140 previous convictions has been sentenced to eight years after being stopped at a garda checkpoint with a petrol bomb.

A father of two who robbed the same bookmakers twice within two days to get a birthday present for his son and alcohol for himself has received a suspended jail sentence.

A former priest and serial child abuser got a three-year suspended sentence for molesting a 14-year-old altar boy 30 years ago.

A man who celebrated after delivering a fatal punch in a “gratuitous” assault on journalist Eugene Moloney has been jailed for three and a half years.

A Dublin man who attacked a garda with a golf club will serve two months in jail for the assault and six burglaries.

A sex offender has died while awaiting sentence for molesting two sisters 25 years ago.

A former Eircom director who defrauded a building society out of €1.4 million for the purpose of setting up a lottery in Peru has been jailed for four years.

A young man serving a sentence for armed robbery will not serve any additional time for a “sickening” assault in a fast-food restaurant.

A 58-year-old Dublin man who was jailed for 10 years for possessing cannabis and ecstasy valued at over €200,000 has had his sentence reduced by four years on appeal.

A youth with 62 previous convictions who hijacked a car so he could get to court has been jailed for 18 months today.

A KILDARE man has escaped a jail term for sexually assaulting his friend’s teenage son while he was babysitting him, taking him on forest walks and fishing trips.

A DUBLIN man who robbed a bookies around the corner from where he lived all his life has been jailed for one year.

A man who was caught transferring €2.75m worth of cannabis resin into a van before driving off has been jailed for seven and half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man who chased a nurse, grabbed a patient’s drip and spat blood at gardaí during a violent hospital outburst has been given a four-year sentence.

Three Mountjoy Prison inmates have received consecutive sentences for their roles in a riot that caused a five hour lock-down and left prison officers with broken teeth.

A man who harassed his ex-partner and her boyfriend as he was unwilling to accept the demise of his relationship with her is to be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has received 12 years in prison sentences after being caught transporting almost €2m worth of heroin last year.

A delivery man will be sentenced later for participating in a series of thefts of retail goods on Dublin’s south side.

A chronic drug addict who walked into a Dublin chapel and robbed the collection money at syringe point from a priest has received a seven-year sentence for this and other crimes.

A drug addict has been sentenced to 12 years for trying to rob a 94-year-old man and robbing a Iranian tourist with a scissors.

A Laois man who torched his ex-girlfriend’s car when he saw another man in her house has received a two-year suspended sentence and 200 hours' community service.

A former Meath county hurler has been sentenced to five years for trying to transport €55,000 worth of cannabis from Dublin to Kerry by train.

A man who petrol bombed a hostel so his girlfriend would be kicked out of it has been sentenced to three years.

A former Meath county hurler will be sentenced later for trying to transport €55,000 worth of cannabis from Dublin to Kerry by train.

A serial rapist who told a woman that he was going to drown her baby and cut it in to little pieces after he raped her has been jailed for 12 years at the Central Criminal Court.

An arsonist who assaulted three prison officers with a kettle after he was reprimanded is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former priest who sexually abused a young boy over 30 years ago and fled the country because of “adverse publicity” before gardaí could interview him has been jailed for one year by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reduced the sentence imposed on an actor convicted of having ten stun guns without a firearms certificate.

A Swords plumber who stabbed a Howth publican in the leg causing him serious injuries after being ejected from his pub has been sentenced to four years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardaí attempting to investigate the abuse of an alter boy by a priest were “given the run around by Church authorities” in their efforts to locate the accused man for questioning.

A father-of-one who picked up two shotguns and ammunition from a derelict house after a man threatened to put a hand grenade through his window has been given a six-year suspended sentence.