A householder who believed that a man was urinating in an alleyway beside his home confronted him in a threatening manner with a long knife.

When it comes to the All-Ireland Sailing Championships, much of the narrative in recent years has surrounded the quest for hat-tricks.

Following last weekend’s victory for Crosshaven’s Peter McCann in Kinsale at the ISA Junior All-Ireland Sailing Championships, attention switches to Dun Laoghaire this morning where Anthony O’Leary is set to defend his 2014 title at the National Yacht Club.

Ireland’s farming industry is going from strength to strength, with export sales at their highest in recent years and promises of €12.5bn of funding from the Government over the next seven years, to encourage further increases in export food production.