A Cork medical school dropout who sent threatening letters to 10 of his past supervisors and tutors at the Royal College of Surgeons has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight to watch The Pipe. The story of a rural community in Co Mayo in Ireland that has been battling the oil giant Shell over their plans to put a raw gas pipeline through the community.

GARDA experts yesterday began examining the remnants of a bomb left at the entrance to Shell’s Dublin offices for forensic and fingerprint evidence.

FIVE demonstrators were arrested and two gardaí injured as clashes broke out during protests at the Corrib gas terminal site in Co Mayo yesterday.