A 35-year-old man, who covered himself in butter to make it more difficult to arrest him, has been given a suspended sentence for wielding a large knife and threatening to kill two gardaí.

A girl who broke her two upper front teeth during a ride on the bumpers has been awarded more than €36,000.

A newly opened butcher’s shop suffered “catastrophic damage” when a huge county council asbestos mains water pipe burst in July 2009, and flooded the shop in Killarney, the Circuit Civil Court was told yesterday.

A judge said he was not going to penalise a person for walking on a country road at night — when no public transport was available — in a civil case in which a tipsy pedestrian sued a hackney driver for negligence after being struck by a wing mirror of the car near Ardfert village.

A 37-year-old man who suffered headaches and was left with a fear of hedge strimmers after being injured on a Community Employment work placement scheme has been awarded €25,000 in an action against the South Kerry Development Partnership (SKDP).

Gravely ill teenager Donal Walsh has donated a €15,000 personal injury award to aid his elder sister’s education.

The threat by a judge to visit a former waste transfer station had done more to have the site cleaned up than six years of court actions by the council and residents during which the defendant had “dragged his feet”.

A JUDGE at the circuit court yesterday in Tralee said he had no doubt a mother of three had suffered psychological upset and trauma after she saw the arms of a man underneath the cubicle of a major leisure centre where she was showering naked.

A 27-YEAR-OLD toy shop manager stole more than €57,000 from his employer because of an out of control gambling problem, a court heard yesterday.

A CIRCUIT court judge has expressed his frustration with delays in completing a planning process arising from the operation of an unauthorised waste recycling centre in north Kerry.

DESPITE the poor forecast, the sun came out in many parts of the country on Saturday morning, almost as if it knew that Leaving Certificate students were back in the exam hall.