Sergeant Gail Smith News Today

A serial petty criminal with one of Ireland’s longest records told a judge being sent back to jail was a “godsend” because she could have ended up dead on the streets.

A Dublin man caught with cannabis “edibles” in his bedroom in a garda search of his home has been given a six-month suspended sentence.

A DUBLIN man once named by CAB as a Kinahan gang "foot soldier" is facing trial on motoring charges after he was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving in the south west of the city.

A MAN who tried to smash a garda station window with a bicycle lock told gardaí he "only tried" to break it and he knew the law. Declan Tobin (57) argued that he had not actually broken the window when a garda came out and confronted him. Giving him a three-month suspended sentence, Judge Alan Mitchell told Tobin he needed to improve his attitude or he would be going to prison. Tobin, with an address at a Dublin hostel, pleaded guilty to being reckless as to whether criminal damage would be ca...