A 31-year-old Mayo man has been charged in connection with a knife attack on Dublin GAA star Jonny Cooper last month.

THREE male passengers had to restrain a librarian on and off over one and a half hours during the course of an air rage incident on board a transatlantic flight at the weekend, a court heard yesterday.

A teenager who took part in a burglary of the offices of the Department of the Environment, in the Custom House in Dublin, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A man charged with rape who has discharged his legal team and is defending himself, has told a jury he has been set up by gardaí because he "made a laugh of them" in a trial in 2000.