A Co Kildare company director was given a nine months suspended prison sentence and fined a total of €100,000 for fixing car prices as a member of a cartel by a judge at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A man accused of kicking another man to death then setting fire to his body has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that he was "very, very sorry" for what he had done.

A man whose severely burnt body was found in a derelict mansion was dead before the fire started a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The trial has begun of a Dublin man accused of killing another man then setting fire to the body in an abandoned mansion in Clontarf in August 2007.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has yet to decide whether four other people are to be charged in connection with the death of two Polish immigrants late last month.

A teenager was today remanded in custody charged with the murder of a Polish man in Dublin last month.

A FISHERMAN who was afraid he’d miss the tide cut a confrontation short on the pier by head-butting another man and yesterday the skipper was convicted of assault.

A teenager mugged a student at knife point and then stabbed him three times for his mobile phone, the Dublin Children’s Court heard Tuesday.

Two youths appeared in court yesterday charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old man in north Dublin last September.

A bus driver accused of causing the death of a former teacher is receiving psychiatric treatment.

The Children’s Court today adjourned the case of a 14-year-old boy, who has tried to kill himself three times, pending a High Court legal action to find him a suitable care facility.

A teenage boy, charged with domestic violence against his sick mother, was remanded in custody, by Judge Thomas Fitzpatrick, at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A garda was left badly injured and off work for five months after he was dragged into a house, held at knife-point and attacked by youths, a court has heard.

A mother has been fined €100 over her troubled 14-year-old son’s crimes.

A 13-year-old boy who had been suspected of committing 60% of burglaries in Rathfarnham and Tallaght, despite being on the educational level of a pupil in senior infants’ class, has been committed to a detention school for two years.

A teenage boy facing a robbery charge was today released on bail with strict conditions and told that he cannot accompany his pregnant 15-year-old girlfriend to England, where she is planning to have an abortion.

THE son of Finance Minister, Charlie McCreevy escaped a criminal conviction and a fine after he pleaded guilty to a public order offence in the Dublin District Court yesterday.