Mother rang social services 'numerous times' about troubled teenage son

A judge has ordered drug testing of a teenager accused of joyriding and producing a knife during a domestic violence incident.

The boy (aged 16), who has no previous convictions, is charged with assaulting two gardaí at his north Dublin home, on January 14 last. He had been remanded in custody on that date after the Dublin Children's Court heard that he could not offer an address to take up bail.