A former Scottish cocaine addict who punched a DART commuter has been given a two-and-a-half-year sentence and banned from re-entering Ireland for a further seven years after his release.

A NEW probe into “alarming” cancer clusters around Cork harbour’s toxic disaster site was demanded last night amid fears the official report will be a “whitewash”.

A convicted drug dealer who worked in an organisation that tried to keep children in the area away from drugs has been sentenced to ten years in prison after he was caught with over €43,000 worth of cocaine.