AS his life in football has been full of them, John Joe Doherty knows the value of taking a second chance.

One of the North's most ruthless loyalist paramilitary assassins, who was freed from jail under the terms of the Good Friday peace agreement, was sentenced to four months today for beating up two sisters.

A THIRD farmer has been jailed in the North for allowing thousands of tonnes of waste originating from the Republic to be dumped on his land.