A steel fabricator who spent up to €2,000 a week on drugs has been given an eight-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of a firearm and storing drugs to feed his cocaine and heroin habit.

A Cork man who stabbed his brother to death during a row at their family home has told Mr Justice Barry White he will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life.

In the city once known as the world’s slaughterhouse, restaurants, politicians and animal rights activists are exercised over a goose liver delicacy.