Richard Hammond has said his leg was left slightly shorter due to an injury on his knee following a major car crash.

Richard Hammond has praised medics after his horrific crash in Switzerland. Hammond was filming for the latest series of The Grand Tour when the Rimac Concept One electric supercar he was driving crashed off the Hemburg Hill Climb course on Saturday.

Fiann Ó Nualláin has moved from mallows as medicine to rediscover the benefits of delightful hollyhocks.

As a piper played a lament, sheets of rain shrouded the tears of relatives yesterday in the yard of the Old Cork Prison where the 1916 rebel Thomas Kent was executed 100 years ago.

SWITZERLAND: Swiss army helicopters have crossed the Franco-Swiss border in an unexpected incursion — to help thirsty Swiss cows.

ENGLAND: A driver tried to tow a flatbed truck by wedging the front of it in the boot of a car — and securing it with just one strap.

A Swiss army knife with a blade open was thrown in the window of a patrol car striking a garda in the neck when a public order incident was being probed at Bandon Rd in Cork.

A garda following up a tip about a man carrying a knife down the waistband of his pants yesterday said the man claimed he had it for cutting potatoes.

THE Christmas tree thing is giving me status anxiety.

THEY say there’s a gadget for just about everything, from boots which detect radiation to a kangaroo tail for weary humans who’d like a rest but can’t be bothered to sit down.

A rare pink diamond auctioned next week could set a new world record if it sells for its estimated price of $27m-$38m (€20m-€28m), Sotheby’s says.

TO the would-be explorer the senior editor (expeditions) at the National Geographic Magazine is a magnetic figure, but daunting. He looks through those shoals of letters which arrive weekly with pleas of sponsorship for proposed expeditions.

A 15-year-old boy nearly mowed down revellers at last year's Oxegen music festival and was later caught at the event fighting while armed with a knife , the Dublin Children's Court has heard.

BLARNEY has done it again.

A garda’s son has been sentenced to six years in prison for the manslaughter of a 14-year-old Traveller boy in Ennis almost two years ago. He was found guilty of the crime while being cleared of murder during a trial in February.

A homeless and pregnant woman who was born in Mountjoy Prison has been given a suspended sentence a for stabbing a Polish man in Pearse street Garda station.

NOW that the iconic Swiss army knife is going to be made in China, what will happen to the cuckoo clock?

A Clare man accused of murdering a hackney driver with a hatchet got a 14 year-old boy to help him destroy evidence of the killing, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

THE NEW elephant facility is nearing completion at Dublin Zoo. It is not scheduled to open until late spring and, so as not to pre-empt the celebrations planned for then, I won't go into detail about it here.

An ex-Irish Army Ranger and former sanctions inspector in Iraq stabbed to death an 18-month-old infant by slashing the baby's neck so forcefully that it cut into the cervical bone, it was alleged in the Central Criminal Court today.

A 45-year-old was in custody today after a man stormed into a Sligo school brandishing a knife and fake gun.

Swiss citizens today rejected a proposal to scrap the country’s armed forces, cherished by many as vital protection for the small, long-neutral Alpine country in the heart of Europe.

The Swiss army has admitted the Gotthard Tunnel has explosives embedded at its entrance.

Swiss police have identified a man who killed 14 people before turning the gun on himself in an attack on a government building.

The Irishman arrested at the Genoa protests last month for possessing a Swiss army penknife has been released and is due to return home to Dublin this evening.