A Kildare man has been jailed for four years for hiding €30,000 for a gang of tiger kidnappers.

A brother and sister who assaulted a man outside his own home are to be sentenced next year after a judge ordered a probation report on the pair.

Four men charged with offences arising out of the discovery of two mortars in Co Louth last year have received sentences totalling 21½ years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The alleged victim of a garda beating had around 30 previous convictions including a four-year jail term for grievous bodily harm, a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Mauritian national who shook his eight-week-old son causing him serious lifelong injuries has been given a five-year sentence with the final two suspended on condition he return to his home country.

A man set fire to a woman’s flat because he was asked to leave a party there, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A “championship” boxer who knocked a man to the ground in a one punch assault may be ordered to perform community service in lieu of a two year sentence.

A Dublin man who rang RTE’s Gerry Ryan Show seeking psychiatric help after he broke into a home to act out his fantasies about harming women will be sentenced later.

A young Dublin woman who assaulted a man with a broken bottle at Shankill Dart station after a verbal altercation between two groups of youths has been given a two year suspended sentence.

A former Brinks Allied security worker who admitted his involvement in an €1.8m cash-in-transit theft has been given an eight year sentence by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who smashed a glass in the face of a schoolboy leaving him permanently blind in his left eye has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Longford resident has been given a five-year sentence for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family.

A Longford resident is to be sentenced later this week for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family last year.

A Dublin man who is representing Ireland in bodybuilding has pleaded guilty to possession of an assault rifle and drugs.

A Dublin woman has revealed she heard a garda repeat “It worked, we’ve got him” over the phone the night her husband allegedly pointed a loaded gun at other officers while resisting arrest.

A "soft-touch" drug dealer who was holding cocaine and ecstasy for a criminal because he feared he would be shot has been given a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An expectant father has been jailed for nine months for possession of a samurai sword which he claimed he had just "yanked" from a group of youths after they threatened him with it.

A youth who hijacked a car at knife-point and later crashed into a couple's vehicle after he drove dangerously with his lights off in an attempt to kill himself has been sentenced to six years in prison with the final two suspended.

A Finglas man who agreed to act as "back up" in the collection of a €200,000 consignment of heroin in return for receiving a €120 Lifestyle tracksuit has been given a six-year sentence.

A convicted armed robber who was caught by a garda surveillance operation at the "handover" of a semiautomatic pistol has been given a six-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Lithuanian men have been jailed for four years for hijacking a car from a fellow national in Skerries.

A Kilkenny roofer who transported cocaine valued over €200,000 because of his so-called "drugs debt" to criminals will be sentenced later by Judge Rory MacCabe.

A Finglas man who agreed to act as "back-up" in the collection of a €200,000 consignment of heroin in return for receiving a €120 Lifestyle tracksuit has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

A member of a gang who arrived to rob a bank just after it closed because their stolen get-away car had been delayed in rush-hour traffic has been given a five-year suspended sentence.

A man who came off drugs twice and helped many others combat their addictions has been given a seven-and-half-years sentence for having heroin worth almost €200,000.

An alcoholic father of one who ran up drug debts to feed his cocaine habit has been given a ten year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of an estimated €200,000 of heroin.

A Lithuanian carpenter who served in the Russian Army has been given a five sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of firearms and drugs in his home.

A man from Blarney who smashed the window of a Garda patrol van outside the GPO during the ‘Love Ulster’ Parade riots was given a three-year sentence by Judge Des Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets has been given time to allow him compensate his 14 victims before he is sentenced.

The Mayo man on trial at the Central Criminal Court on 40 charges of alleged rape and sexual assault of a child in the 1980s totally denied her allegations when interviewed by gardaí.

An African man who faces sentence for raping a teenage Zambian girl he claimed he had married has told the Central Criminal Court he wishes to fire his third legal team.

A former prostitute who robbed €100 from a man after agreeing to provide him with sexual services has been jailed for a year by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.