A 39-year-old jobless man has withdrawn a €60,000 damages claim, arising from a road-traffic accident. The judge told him to stop “ducking and diving”, when asked about previous accidents.

A Swords man who told the security guard of a supermarket he had just robbed that he knew where he lived and would shoot him if he did not let let him go free has been given a three-year sentence.

A Swords man who threatened to kill a prisoner officer and his children after being refused a 'McDonald's' dinner has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Swords man who threatened to kill a prisoner officer and his children after being refused a McDonald's dinner has had his sentence adjourned by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.