A man has been remanded in custody charged over a gun and ammunition seizure after gardai stopped a car in Dublin at the weekend.

A young Dublin man has been sentenced to six years with three suspended for possessing €36,000 of cannabis resin stored in the passenger foot well of a taxi.

A former Department of Justice employee and a Chinese national will be sentenced in March for their role in a scam where visa extensions were issued to immigrant students in return for bribes.