A man who claimed he was a boxer and who assaulted a solicitor in a completely unprovoked one-punch attack, causing catastrophic brain injuries, has been jailed for six and a half years.

THERE’S been a surge of teenage fiction by established Irish authors of late. And it seems a natural diversion for Denise Deegan, who has published four well-received novels for adults.

A retired Mayo businessman and chairman of the Connacht Oil Promotion Federation who was involved in a west of Ireland home-heating fuel price-fixing scam has been given a six-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay a €15,000 fine.