The judge said he thought Alex Kane was “well capable of reforming” and having read a number of reports accepted that things had happened to him “that should not have”.

An unfinished housing estate in Co Cork will be the first to benefit from a new Nama initiative to fast-track the delivery of social housing in so-called ghost estates.

DOLLARS ROCK, carrying the colours of the nine-member W G Hill Syndicate from Watergrasshill, Co Cork, streaked away with the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Handicap at Limerick last night.