A 14-year-old boy, who was the driver of a stolen 4X4 which led gardaí on a high-speed traffic pursuit which ended when he crashed into another vehicle has been placed on supervised probation for 12 months.

A steel fabricator who spent up to €2,000 a week on drugs has been given an eight-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of a firearm and storing drugs to feed his cocaine and heroin habit.

A CORONER ordered gardaí to reopen an investigation into the death of a detention centre inmate after a post-mortem found he died of strychnine poisoning.

Gardaí have launched an investigation, following the death of a man in Limerick this morning.