A chronic drug addict who forced his way into a family home and stabbed a man in front of his wife has been given a 12-year sentence for this offence as well as a spate of armed robberies and storing explosives for a criminal.

A Tyrone man was today brought before the Special Criminal Court and charged with membership of the IRA and the possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The State’s main witness in a Dublin murder trial has denied he was giving information to a Garda in the drugs squad, the Central Criminal Court heard.

SEVEN out of ten motorcyclists have never received basic lessons, relying instead on trial and error and advice from biking friends.