The family of a woman who died days after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash caused by an 85-year-old driver said elderly drivers should be tested more rigorously and their family members should take responsibility for their parents’ transport.

A fireman yesterday described how he saw a five-year-old girl screaming “help, help, help my mom” as she stood in the street and beside her dying 27-year-old mother who had just sustained multiple stab wounds.

Garda Joseph Glackin counted himself lucky to be alive as he sat among guests yesterday at Templemore College watching 97 gardaí march past at their graduation.

The heartbroken mother of an eight-year-old girl killed by the dangerous driving of an unaccompanied learner driver wished him a long life lived to the fullest with her beautiful daughter watching over him.

A Ballyfermot man who assaulted a taxi driver, leaving him with a fractured skull, while on bail for ramming a Garda car with stolen car he had driven at 160 kilometres per hour, has been given a six-year sentence.