Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to question three teenagers in connection with the shooting dead of 19-year-old Paul McCarthy.

AN armed robber suffered serious head injuries after staff at a jewellery shop and passersby thwarted a raid by a three-man gang.

A young Dublin man accused of murder approached Gardaí and told them that he was “responsible” for stabbing his friend, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 26-year-old Dublin woman who has been a heroin addict since the age of 15 is expected to appear in court today after a bench warrant was issued for her arrest.

A FORMER Progressive Democrats councillor from Dublin has been given a six-month jail sentence and fined €1,000 after being convicted of possessing child pornography.

A Trinity College student who dropped out and operated a 'rickshaw' has been jailed for two years by Judge Des Hogan for having cocaine and 'ecstasy' in his flat three days after gardai seized quantities of the drugs from him.