Kerry football legend turned dance star Aidan O’Mahony waltzed into a Cork hospital with garda colleagues yesterday with a special presentation to boost the spirits of children undergoing cancer treatment.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Louth man accused of orally raping a woman with learning difficulties has heard she has a mental age of between eight and nine years old.

A Limerick man has been jailed for four years for having sex with his mentally impaired cousin.

A chronic drug addict has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being caught robbing the same Dublin pub with a sawn-off shotgun for the second time in six years.

A man who spat, pushed and kicked at four gardai after they arrested him for a biting a stranger’s ear has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.