A Rathcormac man who got angry about a CCTV camera mounted outside a neighbour’s house poured petrol on the ground, lit it, and threatened to burn out the neighbours.

THE victim in a murder trial was looking for €600 or €700 – possibly for drugs – on the day he disappeared, his mother and father have told the jury.

THE father of 16-year-old Ciara Gibbs shed tears yesterday as an inquest heard evidence of how she died as a result of drowning at the family’s home in Co Kilkenny.

A Central Criminal Court jury was told a man accused of raping a Cork woman in her home town threatened gardai with a slash hook when they tried to arrest him at a caravan in Tipperary.