A Kildare farmer’s son caught transporting tablets and cannabis bound for the black market valued at over €1m has been given an eight- year sentence.

PROTESTING fishermen were meeting in Cork last night to decide on what course of action to take following the lifting of their port blockades.

GARDAÍ investigating the kidnapping of 41-year-old mother-of-three Helen Judge have not contacted her estranged husband, it emerged yesterday.