An air rifle was fired at the back of a publican’s head by a paranoid man who heard voices and believed people were talking about him behind his back.

A KANTURK publican pointed a shotgun at a customer’s head and then raised the gun to fire a shot into the ceiling to let him know he was facing a loaded firearm.

A middle-aged man was given a three-year jail sentence today for defiling a teenager by having sexual intercourse with her and keeping pornographic images of her on his mobile phone.