A mother-of-two who flung boiling water at a shop worker's face has been jailed for 18 months.

A schoolteacher, mugged by a violent criminal, picked herself off the ground and chased her attacker to recover a handbag, a court in Limerick heard yesterday.

A Limerick woman bit one garda and slammed a patrol car door into another, injuring both, when being arrested, a court heard.

A man accused of more than 100 counts of rape and sexual assault against his daughter told gardaí that the mother of the complainant tried to kill her child on at least three occasions, the Central Criminal Court has heard.