A woman used a baseball bat to attack her ex-husband’s new partner and, on leaving the scene, smashed up a parked van.

A 16-year-old boy, whose parents are too afraid to let him come home, has been further remanded in custody by the Dublin Children’s Court pending sentence for head-butting a garda.

One of seven men arrested at a suspected meeting of the Continuity IRA in Limerick, denied that guns were discussed at the meeting, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A detective garda who took part in a raid on a house in Limerick where a suspected Continuity IRA was taking place, today denied that gardai "hassled" members of Republican Sinn Fein.