A Dublin teenager, who became the first person in the State to be charged with a newly designated offence for smuggling drugs into a prison, has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

Two men who spent weeks in intensive care units after being badly beaten in separate attacks in Dublin have died, it was confirmed today.

Gardaí appealed for information today after a man was left in a serious condition in hospital following an attack.

Temporary accommodation for a teenager, whose mother is dead and whose father is terminally ill, is to be funded by a court’s poor box.

DETECTIVES believe three women arrested yesterday are prime suspects for the murder and dismemberment of an African man.

An inner city Dublin teenager, who a court heard threatened to have a witness shot if he gave evidence against him, has been detained for nine months.

A teenage boy, who viciously attacked a female garda and dragged her along the ground by her shirt after he taunted her with lewd comments, has been detained for nine months.

A man who died after a violent attack in Dublin had intervened in a row between a couple. Patrick Farrell, from Dunne Street on the north-side of the city, was kicked and stabbed to death. It is believed a barbecue fork was used in the attack.