DEBS ball celebrations turned into a nightmare for a young man who was chased along a city centre quay by three attackers who kicked him on the ground while one of them stabbed him three times in the head.

A judge has spoken out strongly against people bringing knives with them to debs dances as he jailed a 21-year-old man for three years for a violent attack on a young man in Cork city.

A MIDDLE-AGED man who stepped outside in the early hours of the morning to see who was causing mayhem outside his front door was slapped in the head with a claw-hammer.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said the Ceann Comhairle is dealing with his own matters in his own way.