A father threatened to break his wife's teeth with knuckle-dusters when he held her at gunpoint during a siege at her south Dublin home, a court has heard.

The family of a bus conductor killed in the 1972 Sackville Place bombings in Dublin will never rest until they discover the circumstances surrounding his death, his widow told his inquest today.

TWO women shouted abuse at a man outside a court yesterday before he was charged with an arson attack on a family home.