A Chinese national has been found not guilty on charges related to the seizure of over 800 cannabis plants with a street value over €600,000.

The two men accused of murdering a 24-year-old man in Mahon last year by stabbing him 11 times were found guilty of the crime yesterday and they were given sentences of life imprisonment.

An arsonist who carried a lifelong grudge for the rejection of his application to join the Gardaí was jailed for ten years for setting fire to a house of apartments where a young woman died three years ago.