A Garda has been sentenced to 200 hours community service for attacking a drunk man in a Santa hat during an arrest in Dublin city-centre.

Members of the Occupy Dame St protest last night converged once more on Dublin’s Central Bank with the intention of resurrecting the camp which had been dismantled by gardaí earlier in the day.

IT was power versus prayer at the Corrib Gas terminal in Mayo yesterday as one of the world’s largest oil companies was faced down by protesters reciting the rosary.