US: An aspiring nun who was told she couldn’t enter a convent until her student loan debt was paid off has used an online appeal to get the money.

Offenders could be stripped of prized possessions such as iPods under proposals to give police better powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, Britain's Home Office said today.

SENIOR gardaí have strongly backed antisocial behaviour orders, Asbos, saying there was a “definite need” for them.

THE country’s largest youth organisation yesterday called for the independent monitoring of new anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos).

ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour orders (Asbos) could breach an individual’s rights, according to Europe’s human rights commissioner.