A drug addict who was disarmed by a security guard who he had threatened with a syringe has been given a three years sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug addict who drove a stolen car the wrong way down the M4 Lucan bypass causing six cars, including a garda patrol car, to "take evasive action" has been given a three year suspended sentence.

A 19-year-old Clondalkin man who drove the getaway car in the Pennies from Heaven charity robbery of €132,000-worth of old coins has been jailed for four years.

The 46-year-old mother of nine who lost her life in an overnight fire in Dublin has been named as Esther O'Connor.