A new charge of harassment has been dropped against a garda who was previously found not guilty by reason of insanity for harassing a married female sergeant.

A married man was imprisoned, stripped, and beaten because his attackers wanted to teach him a moral lesson after he entered the bedroom of another man’s girlfriend, a court has heard.

An addict who was on his way to buy drugs when he fatally injured a 14-year-old boy in a hit and run has received a 20-month prison sentence.

A man punched and stamped on a terminally ill cancer sufferer in a city centre alley way, a court has heard.

A youth who was part of a gang that attacked an army sergeant in order to hijack a military jeep has been given a suspended jail sentence.