A reformed heroin addict who was arrested after he left his wallet and identification in a house he had just burgled has been jailed for two years.

A man who was one of a group of men who kicked and punched a neighbour while he was waiting at a bus stop with his father has been given an 18-month sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

SHOPS are doing a roaring Christmas trade in carp, trees cut in half, crackers made from old paper and climate-change tree lights.

STEAMING bowls of hot vegetable soup and tasty casseroles are associated more with the winter months, but the continuing bad weather has sent consumers indoors in search of comfort foods.

IRISH shoppers are loading up their baskets with the kinds of comfort food they normally buy in winter — all because of the wet and miserable summer weather.