A MAN who launched a meat cleaver attack on the frail neighbour he considered “like a grandmother” was locked up indefinitely yesterday.

CHRIS NEWTON goes to the start line in Tallaght tomorrow defending his FBD Insurance Rás title.

David O’Loughlin won the Murphy and Gunn Shay Elliott cycling event in Co. Wicklow yesterday.

CIARAN POWER may have gone into this year’s FBD Milk Rás as the defending champion but he achieved his main goal for this year yesterday by landing a stage win in a ferocious sprint into Ballina to end an eventful 93-mile third stage from Clifden.