The farmers’ tractor protest which returned to the streets of Dublin yesterday was one of the biggest yet, discommoding hundreds of thousands of businesses, shoppers and city dwellers.

Latest: Fine Gael councillor Padraig Brady, who is subject to an injunction by C&D Foods, has acknowledged that a complaint was lodged with the Garda Pulse system about threats to the management of the company.

A former hospital porter who attempted to commit suicide by setting fire to the council home he shared with his partner and four children has been given a four-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A hospital porter who, in an attempt to commit suicide, set fire to the county council home he shared with his partner and four children, has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.