A 27-year-old man who deliberately drove a van, while drunk, at a motorcycle garda has been jailed for twelve years for various offences.

Two men who were arrested after a high speed pursuit in Cork during which a garda was injured have been remanded in custody after being charged with theft and a range of road traffic offences.

YOUR correspondent John Paul O'Driscoll (Irish Examiner, July 19) describes the European Council as an unelected body.