A TWO-YEAR-OLD child fell about 9m down a shaft in a multi-storey car park and was trapped for 40 minutes as his helpless parents tried to comfort him, a court heard yesterday.

ST COLMAN’S assured themselves of a place in the knockout stages of the Dr Harty Cup following this compre- hensive victory over arch rivals St Flannan’s at Buttevant yesterday.

A drugs "mule" has today been sentenced to 10 years in jail by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for smuggling almost €75,000 worth of cocaine into the country.

A Nigerian national who arrived in Ireland with cocaine valued €315,000 has been jailed for five years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who threatened to burn down a garda’s home and set fire to his car as he swung a baseball bat has been sentenced to four years by Judge Frank O’Donnell.