IF I TELL the truth about being a judge for this weekend’s People of the Year Awards, they’ll never invite me again.

A MACHETE-wielding group stormed the front garden of a house on Christmas Day after a boy was badly assaulted in a long-standing feud, it was claimed yesterday at Limerick District Court.

A MAJOR expansion of family support services in the South was announced yesterday as President Mary McAleese opened a regional headquarters for children’s charity Barnardos in Cork.

Leading swimming coach Gennadi Touretski, who trains Russia’s multi-Olympic gold medallist Alexander Popov and Australia’s Michael Klim, has been suspended.