A man has been jailed for holding a knife to a 65-year-old man after breaking into his home because he mistakenly thought someone had given him ‘the finger’ from a window.

A man broke into a home and held a knife to the 65-year-old occupant’s throat because he mistakenly thought someone had “given him the finger” from the window, a court has heard.

A HISTORY of people sent to the workhouse in Limerick during the 18th century was launched yesterday.

I WOULD not normally find myself in agreement with Mary Harney or the HSE, yet I am now.

TECHNOLOGY stocks took it on the chin at midday Monday after a deluge of earnings downgrades for chips roiled the sector and frustrated an already jittery market sentiment that's factoring in a war scenario with Iraq.