A man accused of a serious assault on his wife by allegedly turning her upside down and spear-tackling her — head first — into the ground wants his bail changed so that his wife can live with him.

A woman was caught by the neck, turned upside down and spear-tackled head first into the ground by her husband outside a nightclub in Cork this week, it was claimed by a detective garda yesterday.

Two Limerick men involved in a sophisticated million-euro drugs network that stretched through the Netherlands, Germany, England, and the North to a rural cottage in Limerick were yesterday jailed at Limerick Circuit Court.

An international courier company’s tracking system uncovered a sophisticated drugs trail stretching through the Netherlands, Germany, England, and the North to a rural cottage in Co Limerick, a court heard.

A motorist who admitted smoking two cannabis joints half an hour before driving denied he was incapable of driving and the judge agreed, dismissing the case against him.

TWO petrol bombs found stashed in the front garden of a house in Southill were intended for an attack on the nearby home of a key state witness due to give evidence against people in an organised crime trial, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A FIVE-WEEK-OLD baby who cried hysterically had to be rescued from the arms of his drunken mother and yesterday the woman was given a suspended jail sentence for being drunk and in charge of a child.