An eight-year jail sentence was imposed yesterday on a Cork man who dragged his wife out of bed by her ponytail and then threw her and kicked her down the stairs leaving her with catastrophic life-changing injuries.

A Polish national living in Ireland for 10 years was yesterday jailed for two years for having €432,000 worth of cannabis resin and grass at his home in Macroom, Co Cork, last April.

A Polish man has been remanded on bail after being charged in connection with one of the largest seizures of cannabis in the south of the country so far this year.

Áilín Quinlan talks to filmmaker Ken O’Sullivan about a new four-part series, Ireland’s Ocean, which starts Sunday, June 22 at 6.30pm on RTÉ One.

RTÉ 2fm presenter, Paddy McKenna, knew a career as a crime reporter was not for him when his then bosses, at the Sunday World, suggested he go undercover with a recording device taped to his body to meet a Russian brothel owner.

THE 10 Co Clare-based children who wrote Dyslexic Brains Learn Differently have varied interests.

The first successful refloating of a dolphin in this country has been confirmed in north Kerry.

The High Court has approved a €4.5m settlement to a 17-year-old Cork girl who has cerebral palsy due to asphyxia at birth.

Richard Collins says breeding habits of gentle cetacean remain a mystery.

ALL nursing home staff should be properly trained in the use of restraining devices, an inquest jury recommended yesterday after hearing how an elderly woman strangled on a strap as she struggled to get out of her bed.