A father of four with a fetish for breaking into women’s homes to steal their underwear has handed over €700 in compensation for damaging one victim’s designer headpiece, which he broke in a jealous rage because he did not own one like it himself.

A 61-year-old man with a fetish who broke into women’s homes to steal their underwear, broke one victim’s hat in a jealous rage because he didn’t own one like it himself, a court has heard.

Gardaí, finishing duty early yesterday morning, raised the alarm as a fire threatened to gut an entire street in a Co Kerry town.

THE wife of a murdered criminal, who was yesterday forced to testify at his inquest, more than six years after his death, could face perjury charges.