A Romanian national has been jailed for four years after he walked along the M50 before hijacking a car at Dublin Airport and getting involved in a dangerous chase with gardaí.

Dublin’s Merrion Square West has retained its status as the capital’s top clamping blackspot for catching motorists without valid parking tickets.

Two men have been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for their roles in a tragic robbery gone wrong which lead to the death of a young Leitrim man.

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