A SENIOR counsel representing a garda on trial for allegedly assaulting a man who resisted arrest has said if her client is convicted, the gardaí will “have to rethink how they deal with drunk, aggressive people” from now on.

Pregnant women are being forced out of their jobs as part of the worst alleged gender discrimination in the North, it was claimed today.

A sister of one of two Dublin men accused of murdering a man said her brother told her he had "stabbed somebody", a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.