A 15-year-old thief, who stole €200 from a woman as she was making a withdrawal from an ATM on Dublin’s Grafton Street, received a six-month suspended sentence at the Children’s Court today.

GARDAÍ plan to bin more than €5,000 worth of alcohol confiscated from street drinkers in Dublin over recent weekends.

A relieved French waiter, who was arrested for trying to pelt France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy with eggs on his arrival at Government Buildings in July, today gave the thumbs up to Irish justice.

GARDAÍ yesterday upgraded a serious assault investigation to a murder hunt after a man died in hospital.

GARDAÍ are preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to a violent and apparently unprovoked assault on a man and his girlfriend.

Detectives were tonight investigating a series of leads in a bid to identify the body of a murdered woman.

GARDAÍ hope footage from CCTV cameras will provide clues behind the callous murder of a woman.

GARDAÍ are to consider sending a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to at least one of the Colombia Three, it emerged last night.

Two teenagers have been remanded in custody after being charged today in connection with robberies at St Stephens’ Green in Dublin, during which a person was allegedly stabbed.

Leading chef Conrad Gallagher has failed in his attempt to stop his trial for the alleged theft of three paintings from going ahead as planned next Tuesday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial of leading chef Conrad Gallagher for alleged theft of three paintings has been listed for October 15 after Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard he would be pleading not guilty.

The case of leading chef Conrad Gallagher for alleged theft has been adjourned until May 29 after Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard he was in New York and unfit to travel.