A young Australian man who tried to ram a garda car four times during a high-speed chase in a stolen truck has walked free from court with a suspended sentence.

The trial of four men accused of kidnapping a Securicor worker and his family before robbing €2,28m has heard how a cash bundle of nearly €26,000 was seized during a search of one house.

A jury has heard that suspected human faeces was taken from a hostage scene after a kidnap victim pointed out an area to gardaí where he said one of the culprits had “gone to the toilet”.

A Securicor cash van driver whose family were held by an armed gang during a Tiger kidnapping six years ago told a trial that he could not drive at one point because he was crying so much.

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.

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.

Two men were refused bail today after they were charged with false imprisonment and robbery of €134,000 in connection with a Tiger kidnapping in Dublin last January.

A former prison officer jailed for smuggling heroin, alcohol and other contraband in to inmates of Mountjoy prison has failed in an appeal against his four-year sentence.

A former pupil of a Clondalkin secondary school, who dressed up as the Batman character The Joker and set fire to the building, causing more than €1m worth of damage, has been given 240 hours community service in lieu of a two-year jail sentence.

The brother of a convicted murderer who was involved in smuggling contraband into Mountjoy prison has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A young man who turned to drugs following the suicide of three of his friends in a short period of time faces a possible ten year sentence after being caught transporting almost half a million euro of cocaine to repay a debt.

A prison officer and a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, who were both involved in smuggling contraband into Mountjoy prison, have been jailed for a total of seven years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A convicted fraudster who “duped” two men and a garda into buying stolen cars from him has been sentenced to three years consecutive to a four-year term he is already serving for a similar crime.

A young man has revealed similarities between two men caught on shop CCTV and raiders who kidnapped him and his family in a €2.28m Securicor robbery.

The Kerry man accused of raping his daughter more than 20 years ago has denied he cannot recall the alleged incident because he had been drinking at a party that night.

A woman has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she noticed a change in her ex-husband's relationship with the daughter he is accused of raping and indecently assaulting over 20 years ago.

A man with a metal plate in his head as a result of brain injuries from a motorcycle accident has been given a five-year sentence for robbing a heavily pregnant woman in her home while armed with a lump hammer.

A 38-year-old grandfather who was caught mixing and packaging cocaine valued over €2m in a rented council house in Lucan has been given a ten-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An Egyptian national who worked for a consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud has today denied that he brought "an object in a jar filled with fluid" from Egypt to Ireland for him.

A consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud broke down in tears at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as he described the day he said his wife discovered a lump in her left breast.