A young Dublin man who stabbed a first year college student’s arm with a broken bottle leaving him with a permanent disability has been jailed for five years.

A young Dublin man who stabbed a first year college student’s arm with a broken bottle leaving him with a permanent disability will be sentenced later with three other youths.

A drug addict who robbed the same building society twice and then headbutted a garda when he escaped from court will not spend any extra time in prison because of his current 20-year sentence for other offences.

A total of 20 years in consecutive sentences has been imposed on a drug addict who committed seven robberies to pay back a €25,000 debt to "people you don’t want to mess with".