GREATER numbers of people are willing to use extreme violence when they feel they are being “slighted” in some way, a leading criminologist has said.

THE football manager of the young man stabbed to death following a row over music at a party yesterday said he had paid the ultimate price for simply trying to help others.

A close-knit village was in shock tonight after a young father was stabbed to death outside his home.

A man was being questioned by murder squad detectives today after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death.

GARDAÍ have urged residents of an apartment block to help them find a gang which rammed a young man off the road before knifing him to death after a row about loud music.

DUBLIN midfielder Eamon Fennell dedicated yesterday’s O’Byrne Cup win over Wexford to a friend, Warren O’Connor, who was stabbed to death over the weekend.

Tributes were paid today to a gifted young footballer and former solider who was stabbed to death after a row in an apartment block.

GARETH TURNBULL won’t be out of pocket as a result of the lengthy battle to clear his name after testing positive for a banned substance in 2005, the Irish Sports Council confirmed yesterday.

FRAN BERRY drew level with Michael Kinane at the top of the jockeys’ championship when taking his total for the campaign to 28 aboard Spirit Of Age in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Handicap at Tralee last night.

Richard Hannon’s Brigadier Gerard Stakes winner Potemkin bids for further big-race success in the Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe at Baden-Baden tomorrow.