A Garda witness has told the trial of South Dublin councillor Michael Murphy for allegedly falsely imprisoning the former Tánaiste Joan Burton that the defendant was more concerned about bad publicity than anyone's safety.

A father who didn’t realise there was a two-year-old boy in the back of the car he was driving during a high speed Garda chase has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

An icecream seller has told a High Court judge that Waterford County Council cancelled his beach trading licence in order to placate a local seaside shopkeeper whose custom had been hit.

A DRUGS courier who was viciously assaulted a week after he admitted having €200,000 of heroin has avoided jail because of the severity of the brain injury he suffered in the attack.

A MAN who burst into a house in Limerick firing at the occupant with a pump-action shotgun walked free from Limerick Circuit Court yesterday.