International badminton player Nigel Boyne has been ordered to pay the manager of Baldoyle Badminton Centre €30,000 damages for assault and defamation.

Tackle the world and do so with joy, President Michael D Higgins told 33 young people who received a Gaisce gold medal yesterday.

A teenage boy, who spat blood into the face of a Garda then threatened to kill him and rape his wife and children, has been remanded on bail to await sentence.