Three young Dublin men filmed themselves laughing and showing their bloodied fists after a “violent rampage” of assaults on bystanders in the city centre, a court has heard.

A Tallaght man who viciously raped, beat and threatened to kill a woman he abducted from a busy road has received an eight-year sentence with one suspended.

A drug addict who returned to Ireland from Germany to face a charge of possessing cannabis valued €106,000, even though the case had previously been dropped, has received a seven year jail sentence.

A former Shelbourne and Irish international youth soccer player has been jailed for three years for stabbing his neighbour in the neck.