An architect has been fined €2,500 for breaching health and safety laws in connection with a fatal workplace accident during renovations at his south Dublin home.

A taxi driver who had an impeccable work record all his life has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after he admitted having over €200,000 worth of cocaine in the boot of his car.

Two women who tore out another woman’s hair and set it on fire when they were behaving "like mad dogs", have been remanded on continuing bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An out-of-control teenage girl has been detained for five months on her 75th conviction.

A father has today repeated his claim that his teenage daughter was stripped naked and put into a padded cell with nothing but a sheet to cover her, when she was held in Mountjoy Prison.