A young man sustained a serious brain injury and also suffered a broken leg on a Christmas morning after being tossed into the air in an impact caused by a drink driver.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times phoned the emergency service hours before the stabbing as he had concerns for her welfare.

A MAN who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy less than half his age on the day he met him on a Bebo chatroom has been jailed for 18 months.