A middle-aged man who flicked a cigarette butt at his neighbour’s head and said, “I’m going to wreck your car tonight”, was yesterday fined and given a suspended jail sentence for his actions.

THOUSANDS of Irish motorists who were convicted of speeding offences in villages and rural townlands over the last six years may now be able to have those convictions quashed.

A WOMAN died at a Dublin hospital from a superbug she “most likely” contracted at another hospital where she previously was a patient, an inquest had heard.