A man struck by a car as he walked home from his local pub died two days before Christmas, an inquest heard.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a recent road accident in Dublin.

A man charged over a €50,000 cash-in-transit heist in Dublin has been given one day bail to travel to a drug treatment centre in Co Mayo.

A drunken father-of-three who told gardai he intended to use a dumbbell bar to "bleedin' kill" a man that a female friend had accused of sexually assaulting her has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.