A teenage boy, who was banned from his home following a domestic incident, avoided being sent to the Oberstown youth detention facility yesterday because it was full.

A teenage boy, who was banned from his home following a domestic incident, avoided being sent to the Oberstown youth detention facility today because it was full.

A "very dangerous" convicted Polish sex offender has been given a four-year sentence for assaulting his partner who claimed he tried to hang her in their apartment to make it look like suicide.