Two sisters who assaulted a woman in front of her baby son have been ordered to complete community service hours in lieu of prison sentences.

A chronic Dublin drug addict described as “the black sheep of his family” who carried out a string of robberies of bookies shops has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

A homeless deaf mute man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing an acquaintance by knocking him under a bus in Dublin on December 2012.

A homeless man who killed an acquaintance by knocking him under a Dublin Bus in the city centre a year-and-a-half ago may avoid a jail term.

Two teenage boys charged over a drink-fuelled attack on a youth, who was allegedly kicked on the head as he lay on the ground, have been remanded on bail.