A Ballyfermot man who assaulted a taxi driver, leaving him with a fractured skull, while on bail for ramming a Garda car with stolen car he had driven at 160 kilometres per hour, has been given a six-year sentence.

Convicted US sniper Lee Boyd Malvo told authorities that he and John Allen Muhammad were responsible for four additional shootings that had not been publicly linked to them before, according to a published report.

A SUSPECTED explosive found on a telecoms mast in Co Donegal was made from fireworks and DIY materials, a forensics expert told the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption yesterday.

A 34-year-old Limerick man was jailed for five years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for firearms and ammunition offences.

There were two large bloodstains on the ground and there was blood splattering on aluminium shutters at the scene of a fistfight that ended with one man being stabbed to death, a jury has heard.

A former soldier accused of murdering an 18-month-old infant told gardai that, if responsible, he wished the child's father would shoot him, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A former soldier charged with murdering an 18-month-old infant appeared drunk when gardai arrived at the scene on the morning of the killing, a murder trial jury heard.