A prisoner enjoyed more than a month of freedom because of a blunder by prison officers who last month ignored his advice that they were sending him home almost a year too soon.

A young man who has a previous conviction for manslaughter has been jailed for the violent hijacking of a taxi.

A convicted drug dealer and robber who was operating "a heroin mixing factory" in west Dublin has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Thomas Teehan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.