A man has been refused bail for allegedly beating a taxi driver at Charleston Road in Ranelagh in Dublin in a dispute over a fare.

Three people have appeared in court charged in connection with anti-austerity protests outside the European People's Party congress.

A drug addict, who bound, gagged and strangled two women, who had previously given him food and money, during a “surreal” and “brutal” robbery has been jailed for six years.