A LATE-NIGHT intruder was so drunk in the house he burgled that he asked for a drink when the householders nabbed him — and after he was pushed out of the house he knocked on the door and asked again for a bottle.

THE parents of three brothers who lost their lives in a house fire had to leave an inquest because the evidence was so upsetting.

A Tralee man denied murdering another man in the town two years ago and today a trial commenced where it was claimed that the accused struck the deceased several times with a slash hook.