A man who made a hoax 999 call to say there had been a shooting at a pub in order to divert Gardaí who were trying to remove him from his ex-partner's home has been jailed for 15 months.

A woman has told a jury of the moment she faced a gunman in her garden, who fired two shots as she fled her home.

An unemployed woman in dispute with Dublin City Council over arrears of rent has brought a legal challenge aimed at preventing the local authority from evicting her from what has been her family's home for more than two decades.