A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Woman jailed for possessing bullets
A Dutch woman whose partner has been jailed for one of the State's largest heroin seizures in Meath in 2006 has been given a three-year sentence for possession of pistol ammunition on the same occasion.
Caroline Van Dongeren (32), The Lane, Foxlodge Woods, Ratoath, was found guilty by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a two-day trial last January of having two magazines containing 20 bullets on June 24th, 2006, at her home.
Judge Tony Hunt suspended the final 18 months of the sentence on account of her three young children.
Guilty plea to rape in Waterford
A Kildare man has pleaded guilty to raping and threatening to kill a Waterford woman in her home last year.
Barry Farrell (24), Pacelli Road, Naas, pleaded guilty after a jury had been sworn in for his trial on four charges and was remanded in custody for sentence later by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins, who also directed that his name be added to the register of sexual offenders.
Farrell had earlier admitted committing criminal damage to the woman's home in a Waterford town on the same occasion, on the night of June 23rd, 2007.
Three years for violent robbery
A chronic cocaine addict has been given a three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a €40 robbery in which she threatened to slit a young woman's throat.
Anne Marie Pezzillo's threat caused the victim to quit her professional Dublin city job and to become almost a recluse in her rural home.
Pezzillo (24), who injected cocaine intravenously, had been due to go to a residential drug treatment course this month but Judge Patrick McCartan imposed the three-year sentence on receipt of a report that she had tested positive for drugs since her last appearance. He suspended the final 12 months for three years.
She pleaded guilty to committing the robbery at Burlington Road on July 28th, 2006.
Sentencing of dealer adjourned
Sentencing of a teenage drug dealer who was caught with special wrapping material for a kilo weight package of heroin valued at €200,000 has been adjourned to allow a judge to consider the findings of probation reports.
The 17-year-old male has pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children's Court to possessing heroin for sale or supply to another, at his north Dublin home, on October 16th, 2006.
Judge Aeneus McCarthy yesterday said that the Probation Service report on the teen was "very negative".
Man accused of sexual assault
The trial of a deaf man accused of sexually assaulting his partner's friend after a New Year's Eve party at his house has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The Dublin man pleaded not guilty through a sign interpreter to attacking the woman as she lay in bed in his young son's room on January 1st, 2004.
The trial continues before Judge Frank O'Donnell.
Accused (16) not wanted at home
A 16-year-old north Dublin boy facing burglary and trespass charges has been remanded in custody after the Children's Court heard his mother did not want him home. The boy, who also faces a further charge for possession of a screwdriver as a weapon, had failed to attend court last Friday and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.
Yesterday Judge Aeneus McCarthy was told that the teen's mother was "not willing to take him home". The boy was remanded in custody to St Patrick's Institution to appear again later this week.