The teen faces two counts of attempted rape and one for sexual assault of the same female on a date last year when he was aged 16.

A teenager has been given two years detention for the false imprisonment of another young man.

The harrowing background was revealed when the now 18-year-old pleaded guilty to stealing €360 worth of clothes from a sportswear outlet in Tallaght

A teenager who stabbed a man to death on a sunny afternoon in front of shoppers and children using a knife he had bought for self-protection has been jailed for 13 years

The teenager is due before Dublin District Court today.

The Rescue 116 helicopter and Drogheda Coast Guard responded immediately to the incident.

As the car approached the Tallaght Stadium, it "swerved in and out to avoid a collision on the wrong side of the road".

The rapes occurred over one day in four different locations in a Co Kildare town

The collision occurred on the Clane Road (R403) in Celbridge, Co Kildare at around 10.30pm on Tuesday night

In reference to evidence that gloves seized from the man less than 30 minutes after the shooting contained matching firearms residue, State counsel Eilis Brennan SC said: "We don’t live in Detroit where there are regular drive-bys". "It was 11.20pm; was he going Pheasant shooting?" she asked.

The victim was named locally on Friday night as Lorna Woodnutt