A woman has told how she feared for her life after being bombarded with 4,000 Twitter messages from her estranged husband that ranged from “nonsense” to death threats.

A man who threatened to kill a woman, a child and gardaí during what was described as a six-hour siege where a garda crisis negotiator had to intervene has had his sentence adjourned by Judge Patricia Ryan.

A Monaghan man who was arrested by detectives investigating the Omagh bombing was today charged in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin with membership of an unlawful organisation, the IRA.