Westmeath staged a strong second-half display, to maintain their unbeaten run in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship at Austin Stack Park, Tralee this afternoon.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has found that the four-year suspended sentence handed down to a man who savagely attacked a former English Army corporal was unduly lenient.

A former English Army corporal has been consigned to a desk job and an inactive life with non-stop headaches after being savagely attacked in Dublin's Temple Bar area.