A carer for an elderly lady has received a three-year suspended sentence for stealing over €30,000 from the retired school teacher.

A carer for an elderly lady will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after she stole over é30,000 from the retired school teacher.

A garda’s courage in tackling and disarming a gunman, who had just shot two people in a church, left him with nightmare flashbacks, a court heard today.

A Dublin man who spent three days in jail on behalf of his brother was today released from custody.