Twenty motorists accused of dodging M50 tolls were hit with fines totalling €212,000 today after they failed to turn up to court.

A Dublin man who led gardaí to a van containing over €370,000 of drugs when he failed to use the indicators on his car has been jailed for seven and a half years.

A Tallaght man who killed a teenage schoolgirl while speeding on his uninsured motorbike has been jailed for three years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

MORE THAN a dozen people were involved in an early morning street fight in Dublin yesterday in which a teenage father died.

A man with 19 previous convictions has been jailed for his role in a £50,000 robbery in Dublin.