Two personal injury claims by James Jordan, husband of Dublin Wives television star Jo Jo Jordan, for damages totalling €120,000 have been thrown out by a judge.

A CONVICTED killer who had bitten off part of a man’s ear during an earlier dispute and posted it through the victim’s letterbox in an envelope some days later has been jailed for four years.

A man's appeal of an assault conviction at the centre of a dispute, which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent, was described today as “a matter of some delicacy” and adjourned until October.

THE targets set post-Athens were realised and, in some cases, exceeded according to the Irish Sports Council’s review of the preparation of athletes and their subsequent performances in the Beijing Olympics.

A MAN described as a nuisance to Dungarvan was jailed for three years yesterday for stabbing a man he claimed had “propositioned” him during a party.

THE MOTHER of a man who died two weeks after an alleged “cocaine party” will stand trial on drugs related charges next month.

A Kilkenny roofer who transported cocaine valued over €200,000 because of his so-called "drugs debt" to criminals will be sentenced later by Judge Rory MacCabe.

A fifth Longford man has walked free after being acquitted by a jury of committing violent disorder arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

A fourth Longford man has been declared not guilty of violent disorder at the trial arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

Charges alleging two Longford men were part of an armed group who ambushed a wedding party and shot two passengers have been withdrawn from a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A witness has identified three Longford men as having been part of a group of "40 lads" who ambushed his car and shot a family member as they drove to a wedding.

A SELF-CONFESSED drugs and drink addict was given a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence yesterday after he admitted entering a 21-year-old barman’s apartment, tying him up, gagging him and stealing cash.

A Mayo man whose companion used a garrote on a taxi driver when they robbed him at a halting site has been jailed for three years by Judge Rory Maccabe at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

JAILED former council official George Redmond clashed repeatedly at the Planning Tribunal yesterday with retired developer Tom Gilmartin over the date of their first meeting in the late 1980s.