An innocent mother-of-three has been awarded almost €5,000 after Gardaí smashed in her doorway during a raid which proved fruitless.

Two reformed drug addicts who sold heroin to undercover gardaí six times have been given suspended jail terms after Judge Katherine Delahunt accepted that they had both turned their lives around.

Three teenagers robbed a man of his car keys when he was on his way to midnight mass on Christmas Eve and returned to attack him to find out where his car was parked, a court has heard.