A woman who stopped to assist a man on the side of the road was the victim of a hijacking and yesterday the sentencing judge said the case was too serious to impose sentence without giving it further consideration.

A judge has said four men "behaved like a lynch mob from the days of the wild west" when they terrorised a Shannon family in the early hours of New Year’s Day in 2012.

SCORED one, made one and never rested until he was hauled ashore and handed the man of the match award.

There cannot be too many goalkeepers throughout the world capable of holding onto their international place after conceding five goals in one game - but Oliver Kahn managed to do just that.