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A Russian woman who believed she was working as a financial agent for a legitimate company has been given a suspended sentence for handling stolen cash for them.

An Algerian man with an address in Kilkenny was given a suspended jail sentence after threatening to decapitate his ex-girlfriend.

A Ballinasloe-native writer faces jail next month unless he seeks help and accepts that sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy was wrong.

An alcoholic schizophrenic Westmeath resident who threw missiles at gardai during the 2006 "Love Ulster" parade riot has been given a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An immigrant father-of-one involved in a “phishing” scam on a Kilkenny bank customer has escaped jail after Judge Desmond Hogan gave him a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

AS A genre, the short story is the Cinderella of literature. The reason for this remains elusive but there is no doubt the hapless tale or story is more often than not left aside and its more aristocratic cousins, the novel, the poem, or the play preferred instead. In fact, at one stage, it was the deliberate policy of French publishers not to accept manuscripts of short stories as “personne ne les lit plus”.