The scene of a rear-ending collision on a minor Co Limerick road resembled a scene from “an emergency Isis attack” with three fire tenders, two ambulances, and gardaí called out, a judge said.

A Limerick man who was previously extradited to Ireland from Bulgaria to face trial for intimidating, and threatening to kill another man, has pleaded guilty to intimidating the man.

In an emotional scene on the steps of a court house yesterday, the daughter of a patient who died when he was hit by a car after he left a hospital to go to a nearby take-away, embraced the driver involved in the accident.