A father-of-one who picked up two shotguns and ammunition from a derelict house after a man threatened to put a hand grenade through his window has been given a six-year suspended sentence.

A drug addict who boxed for Ireland before a relapse led him to carry out a number of robberies to feed his habit has been given a nine-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 22-year-old man has been given an 18-month sentence for his role in the events leading up to the death of a man in Ballymun who remonstrated with a group of youths following the theft of his friend’s car.

A 44 year-old man who threatened to kill his estranged wife and led gardai on a high speed car chase with his seven year old son in the back-seat will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.