Although raised in a loving home and despite reassurance from his parents that he was loved, adopted Jonathan O’Driscoll was a tortured soul in the months before he killed his twin brothers and took his own life.

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.

A proud father who took a short leave from UN duties in the Golan Heights to see his son commissioned as a Naval Service officer said he had no fears going back to join his comrades in that troubled region.

TWO men charged with damaging the door of a house in Ennis had gone there to sort out a matter under boxing rules laid down in 1869, a court was told yesterday.

THE married father of two accused of the murder of Clare woman Deirdre McCarthy is not to go within a 30km radius of Ballyvaughan.

A MARRIED father-of- two said “I’m very sorry for what happened” when charged with the murder of Deirdre McCarthy, a court heard yesterday.