A man convicted of assaulting a garda was told by a sentencing judge "the blaggardism" had to stop.

A man on trial for attacking a member of An Garda Síochána claimed the officer assaulted him and that "a tiger in the wild would not do to a suckling calf" what the detective did to him.

A man in dispute with management of Fermoy Mart on the question of whether cattle for sale had horns went on trial yesterday on a charge of assault on a garda at the mart in March last year.

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The lorry driver on trial for assault causing harm to a detective at Fermoy Mart said yesterday that he stabbed the guard repeatedly in the hand with the key to his lorry, but only because he believed the officer was trying to get him out “dead or alive”.

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A man accused of stabbing a garda during a standoff at a mart has been released on bail after giving a sworn undertaking to stay away from the premises and its staff.

Engine failure is being investigated as the primary cause of a light aircraft crash which killed a flight instructor and a trainee pilot.

There were hugs, kisses, the odd tear, and a determined message that the Government must ensure workers get their just entitlements as one of the longest sit-ins in industrial relations history ended.

“WE’RE not giving up without a fight.”

PRESERVATION works are to be undertaken by North Tipperary Co Council in a bid to stave off the closure of one of the country’s oldest courthouses.

THE idea that the opposition could have negotiated a better interest rate from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the recent bailout is “laughable,” according to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

UP to 200 former Dell workers yesterday picketed an office scheduled to distribute EU funding for retraining programmes.

A FUND of almost €23 million set up to assist former Dell workers and others who lost their jobs as a result of the closure of the computer giant’s Limerick plant will become available today after the workers’ programme was signed off by the EU Commission.

ON the first anniversary of the Dell closure announcement, FÁS was yesterday given Government approval to set up a dedicated unit in Limerick to help former workers at the closed down computer plant to upskill and retrain.

FORMER Dell workers have set up a support group to help the 2,000 people who lost their jobs in Limerick a year ago this week.

WORKERS at the doomed Dell plant in Limerick said yesterday they want to have a say on how the EU-backed retraining fund announced by EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is used.

THE decision yesterday by the EU Commission to give €55 million to Dell to assist the US computer giant transfer its Limerick manufacturing operation to Lodz in Poland sparked anger among the Dell workers who will lose their jobs by the end of the year.

NEW to the market, along the Forest Road just off the main Cork to Kinsale route in Carrigaline, this dormer home has outdoor extras aplenty.

AISLING BUTLER’S father John said his daughter was “a truly wonderful, exciting girl. She never flunked an exam in her life – nailed every one of them – and took it all in her stride as well.”

THE first tranche of layoffs at the Dell plant kick in this week.

EACH of the 2,000 Dell workers in Limerick who will lose their jobs before the end of the year could be in line for payments of about €6,000 each from the European Globalisation Fund.

Workers at Dell in Limerick will meet later to decide on their response to the company's redundancy offer.

DELL workers who are set to lose their jobs over the coming months have called a meeting tomorrow night to consider taking their fight for better redundancy to the Labour Relations Commission.

THE Dell fallout has claimed its first major casualty among its supplier companies in Limerick.

SOME Dell workers are in open revolt at the redundancy package offered.

DENIS RYAN had seen it all before. He worked at Krups which closed down in the early 1990s when it was known as Moulinex.

PART of a land accumulation for a tourism development at Hangman’s Point in Kinsale, Co Cork has hit the market with joint agents, Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith and Denis Ryan of Ryan and Co.

Tommy Barker finds large Riverstick homes with basement areas.

After hundreds of hours of forensic probing on his radio programme, it seems Vincent Browne now accepts the Taoiseach has no questions to answer in relation to the Mahon Tribunal’s investigation into the Quarryvale planning controversy.

AN English father has pleaded with an Irishman facing extradition over a fatal road traffic accident to travel voluntarily to Britain to attend a related court hearing.

TWO of the country's largest retailers have reported mixed results for the past year.

Fianna Fail should stand for election in the North for the first time in its 75 year history, members say.