A son of a convicted gangland murderer terrified teen soccer supporters in Shannon when he held a knife up to their necks during a daylight robbery.

The son of EuroMillions winner Dolores McNamara, Gary, has been left nursing a €128,778 bill after thieves “gutted” his mansion of all its antique chandeliers, light fittings, brass items, and copper piping.

A 23-year-old farm worker living on a remote peninsula in Clare who stalked an older married woman has avoided jail.

A one-legged cancer surviving cocaine dealer is one of the bigger drug dealers in the south Clare area and is at “huge risk” of reoffending.

A 22-year-old farm worker who stalked a woman avoided being sent back to jail yesterday after making contact with the married mother of four again.

Kildorrery 1-11 Éire Óg 1-5: A depleted Éire Óg side bowed out of the Cork IHC in Mallow yesterday, Kildorrery denying them by six points to progress beyond the fourth round yesterday.

A 22-year old farm worker who stalked a married woman living nearby “had become obsessed with the older woman”.

Two men were “in fear of their lives” as they ran away from men wielding a machete and hockey stick in the school yard of a primary school, a court has heard.

Bantry Blues 2-8 Na Piarsaigh 0-6: Richard Harrington wore the look of a man who just had his shoulders relieved of a heavy load which had stubbornly sat there since the first Friday in May.

A Dublin man charged with sending a pig’s head to the home of a garda yesterday pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence.

A judge yesterday adjourned sentencing of a ‘neighbour from hell’ after hearing an anonymous letter containing specific threats has recently been sent to his victim, Raymond Crowley.

An elderly mother has told a court her 39-year-old heroin dealing son “is our rock”.

A mother of two told a court yesterday her 67-year-old neighbour destroyed her life and that she was now a prisoner in her own home.

An unemployed 34-year old mechanic yesterday pleaded guilty to the false imprisonment and robbery of a prostitute at an Ennis hotel room last year.

A couple in their 60s who are married with seven grown-up children yesterday went on trial for harassing their younger neighbour over a six-year period.

A Munster senior title-winning hurler turned up at Ennis Garda Station last Christmas with his head bloodied and bruised after being struck by a beer glass and a stick.

Ballincollig 3-15 Carbery 1-11

A Shannon grandfather was attacked in the hallway of his home while being terrorised by a group of youths in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2012.

Two men today walked free from court after receiving suspended jail terms for their robbery of a 68-year-old man who abandoned his west Clare home after being terrorised there by robbers.

A married couple have gone on trial for the harassment of their neighbours over a six-year period.

A 68-year-old man abandoned his home and cycled 30 miles through the night to check himself into a nursing home after being terrorised twice by robbers at his remote home in west Clare.

At 10pm on Feb 21, 2012, bachelor Michael McMahon heard banging outside his home in rural Co Clare and could see three torches in the darkness outside.

A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a 45-year-old man charged in connection with sending a pig’s head to the home of a garda.

Paschal Carmody said yesterday “it is very hurtful” that he has had to spend millions of euro to defend his innocence over the past nine years.

A mother of two was yesterday jailed for her role in a violent assault at an impromptu Halloween party sparked by the victim evicting three revellers engaging in a ‘threesome’.

Bantry Blues 0-17 Kinsale 0-09

A man was “lucky to be alive” after being stabbed when he tried to evict three people engaging in a threesome at an impromptu Halloween party in his apartment.

A mother of five was cleared by a jury for her role in an internet scam relating to counterfeit cheques totalling €27,000.

A paedophile told a schoolboy that if he wanted the sexual abuse to stop, his younger brother would have to take his place.

Having lost the previous three finals, Clyda Rovers must to do things the hard way if they are to reach a fourth PIFC decider in a row after they were beaten by Bantry Blues at Kilmichael on Saturday.

Ballincollig claimed the Mid-Cork U21AFC title as they dethroned last year’s champions Éire Óg at Coachford on Saturday.

JOE WARD may have a pocketful of gold medals — world junior, world youths, European senior and a national senior gold — but tonight he climbs into the ring with fellow Westmeath man Davy Joe Joyce to decide his Olympic future.

A DISABLED woman blind in one eye lives in fear that a woman and her two accomplices will come back and kill her after carrying out an aggravated burglary at her home.

THE role played by a seven-year- old black labrador in a drugs swoop at Shannon Airport last August was yesterday praised by a circuit court judge.

A VICTIM of serial child sex abuser Thomas Waters described him as a monster, and said he took away his innocence and replaced it with fear.

Bantry Blues 1-11 Newmarket 1-9

A JURY yesterday delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict in a case where a west Clare man pleaded self-defence when biting off part of a friend’s ear.

Kildorrery 3-16 Delanys 1-7

LIMERICK County Council paid out €1.38 million in legal expenses last year, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.