A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of former boxing world champion Steve Collins on a charge of assaulting a bouncer at the National Stadium two years ago.

A SECURITY supervisor has claimed former world boxing champion Steve Collins was “like a caged animal” shouting obscenities at an Albanian bouncer moments after he allegedly punched him in the face.

A former civil servant who downloaded child pornographic images described as "amongst the worst that have ever come before the courts" will be jailed unless he begins attending the Granada Institute.