A Wicklow youth who restrained a 70-year-old man in an armchair at an old folks complex while his accomplice searched the man’s flat for cash to steal was given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenage father-of-one whose unprovoked assault left a passer-by unconscious in a pool of blood on New Year's Day has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A young man accused of manslaughter has said he wished to "turn back the clock" on the night he allegedly hit a middle-aged Sligo native, who died in a coma six weeks later .

A young Ballymun man has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he committed two offences, one while on High Court bail.

A Ballyfermot man who was arrested after gardai heard he was bragging to his friends about his involvement in the 'Love Ulster' riots has received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who threw bricks at gardai during the 2006 'Love Ulster' riot has been jailed for 18 months for violent disorder by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 17-year-old Dublin girl who was having "a bad come-down" on prescription drugs when she scalded her social worker has had her sentence adjourned by Judge Patricia Ryan until November.

Gardaí, who were repeatedly stabbed after foiling a gang trying to rob captives they were holding in a north city suburb, throught they were going to be killed by a balaclava-masked man wielding a knife, a court has heard today.

A Dublin teenager who made a suicide pact with his co-accused has been given a four years suspended jail sentence for a drink and drugs-fuelled assault which left another teenager with permanent facial scars.

A Finglas man who accidentally shot and almost killed an eight-year-old boy when he was shooting at birds with a pellet gun has been sentenced to four years by Judge Patricia Ryan.

A man who spat, pushed and kicked at four gardai after they arrested him for a biting a stranger’s ear has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who, aged 14, was caught storing over €14,000 of heroin in a torch in his mother’s house has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A talented soccer player who was rejected by a major English club because of his role in a serious assault on a DART passenger has been jailed for six months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.