A Dublin mother is to be sentenced in May for breaking another woman’s jaw, biting her cheek and pulling out “chunks” of her hair during a drunken fight at a house party.

A murder investigation was under way in the UK today following the death of a 13-year-old girl who was assaulted.

A heavily pregnant woman has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for robbing a young woman as she walked home from a night out last year.