A man accused of defecating in front of a shop employee at a Limerick filling station, last Christmas Eve, was refused bail, at Limerick District Court, Tuesday.

A jail sentence has been imposed on a man who took his partner’s van after a drunken row and drove 900 metres through the streets of Mallow with her hanging on to the bonnet.

A bouncer who bit part of a man's ear off because he was depressed about being told he may have CJD - a form of "mad cow disease" - will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.