A Galway resident who held a woman at syringe point in her van in the car park of Liffey Valley shopping centre has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 19-year-old Galway man was sentenced to 12 years for the manslaughter of his school friend, today at the Central Criminal Court.

A MAN was charged yesterday in relation to a stabbing incident in which a 19-year-old was fatally injured.