A drugs mule caught with a stash of heroin in the course of a garda surveillance operation at a hotel car park in Cork was yesterday jailed for three years, with the last two years suspended.

A man on anti-depression medication, who went for a walk after a couple of cans of beer, ended up calling to another man’s house, got into an altercation and bit both of the victim’s ears.

A 30 year-old Clonmel man has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life at the Central Criminal Court for murdering his former girlfriend's boyfriend.