When gardaí went to investigate reports of shots being fired in a Limerick housing estate, they discovered a man had been doing target practice firing a rifle out his bedroom window.

One of the country’s most under-threat women sat in a Limerick court and heard that her partner, a notorious rapist, was now a changed man since meeting her and having a child with her.

A bouncer who bit part of a man's ear off because he was depressed about being told he may have CJD - a form of "mad cow disease" - has been given a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A bouncer who bit part of a man's ear off because he was depressed about being told he may have CJD - a form of "mad cow disease" - will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.