A young couple with a new-born baby have been left terrified after a gang forced their way into their Dublin home and threatened them at knifepoint.

A former pupil of a Clondalkin secondary school, who dressed up as the Batman character The Joker and set fire to the building, causing more than €1m worth of damage, has been given 240 hours community service in lieu of a two-year jail sentence.

A PETTY criminal who died two days after being fatally stabbed and beaten in what may have been a vigilante-style attack was the father of two young boys and his widow is pregnant with their third child.

WHY do you persistently refer to Graham Norton as Cork-born?

The prosecution has closed its case in the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Dublin man charged with firearms offences.