A man who was before a special court on Saturday charged with breaching a protection order was released on strict bail but he breached it within hours.

Horrific emails were allegedly sent by a man to his own mother, including one in which he referred to her plans to sell her house and in which he asked how the sale would be affected by someone being killed there.

A darkly dressed man rambling along the middle of the road at night gave a garda a kung fu-style kick to the chest and yesterday a four-month jail sentence imposed previously was suspended after evidence that he had attended alcohol rehabilitation.