A heavy young man launched himself from the balcony of a crowded Kerry nightclub landing on a young nurse on the dance floor below, a court heard.

A man jailed for dangerous driving causing the death of a young woman yesterday withdrew a High Court action in which he claimed damages for injuries he received in the fatal crash.

If retired county council worker Edmund Quinlan lived in the US, his blood would be bottled, a surgeon told the High Court in Limerick yesterday.

HAVING your ear bitten off is not something that should happen in a civilised society, a High Court judge said yesterday as he awarded €40,000 damages to a 28-year-old carpenter who was attacked in a Dublin nightclub.

MUNSTER and Ireland hooker Frankie Sheahan faces an anxious wait in the battle to clear his name of a doping charge, after an independent Judicial Tribunal decided to postpone making a decision on the case until later in the week.