A man was remanded in custody today after he was charged with robbery of €3,000 from a post office in Dublin yesterday afternoon.

The case of three teenagers arrested over a gang attack on a man, which was described as an act of “gratuitous violence,” was too serious to be heard in the Children’s Court, a judge ruled today.

A rapist who previously served seven years of a 10-year term has been remanded in custody for sentence for sexually assaulting a young woman in the early hours of Millenium Eve.