An off-duty bar manager socialising at the same bar assaulted a security man at the premises and yesterday he was convicted and fined.

The members of the Global Economic Forum are hoping to create 100,000 jobs out of this weekend’s think-in at Dublin Castle. But which ideas will emerge remains to be seen.

An inmate who assaulted a prison officer at Mountjoy Prison in a “determined and vicious attack” has been given a six-month sentence to run consecutive to a 10-year sentence he is currently serving.