A Spanish woman who had come to Dublin to learn English was left with permanent facial scarring after she was glassed by another woman in a city centre pub, a court has heard.

A taxi driver who sexually assaulted three young women within two weeks has been jailed for five years.

A Latvian woman who threw her partner’s six-year-old child against a wall and beat him with a mop while she was drunk has received a two-and-a-half year suspended sentence.

A would-be-robber's attempted raid on his local post office was foiled by a customer who managed to wrestle a syringe away from his own throat and hold the man until gardai arrived, a court has heard.