Nightclubs should ensure that their customers do not leave with "lethal weapons" such as bottles, Judge Katherine Delahunt said as she jailed a man who "glassed" his victim in the face.

POLITICIANS in the North have demanded hundreds of videos glorifying republican and loyalist paramilitaries and violence be removed from the internet.

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a father of four shot dead in the bedroom of his west Dublin home yesterday arrested a 20-year-old man who was later released without charge.