A consultant psychiatrist has told a jury that after a patient stabbed him in the abdomen with a four inch knife he could smell gut contents and saw that the blade was "smeared right up to the hilt".

Three inner city men who got suspended sentences from Judge Tony Hunt for a violent robbery have been brought back before him at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for breaching their 9pm curfew conditions.

BOTH St Flannan’s and Doon CBS will be at full strength for Sunday’s Irish Examiner Dr Harty Cup semi-final at Dolla (2.30pm).

CHAMPIONS St Colman’s will be at full strength for tomorrow’s Irish Examiner Dr Harty Cup quarter-final clash with St Josephs (Borrisoleigh) at Clonmel (2pm).

GRAEME DUNLEA aged 18 from Killorglin, Co Kerry, won the fifth Irish News of the World Young Irish Golfers Challenge at Luttrellstown’s par 72 course yesterday.