As part of an on-going intelligence led operation targeting the illegal sale and supply of controlled drugs in West Dublin, Gardaí at Ronanstown have seized cocaine and arrested two males.

A man who attempted to rob a building society in Dublin while dressed as a wealthy wheelchair-bound woman has been jailed for this, and another attempted robbery.

One in a dress and the other in an ill-fitting suit, two men tried to rob a building society in what was described in court as a “shambolic operation”.

Two mothers of young children have been remanded in custody for sentence for kidnapping of a businessmen arising out of "a genuine but misguided belief" that he was "a conman".