A young man who knocked a girl unconscious with a “ferocious dig in the face” after a name calling incident has been ordered to do community service in lieu of a prison sentence.

A father of one caught with a cash box containing €50,000 which was stolen during an ATM delivery has been sentenced to a year in prison.

A taxi driver who was caught with €1m worth of heroin in his car and at the home he shared with his partner has been given the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for this offence by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A man was shot and injured in north Dublin last night, gardaí said today.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two men following a stabbing incident in the city centre in the early hours of the morning.