A ballistics report is being prepared in an investigation into the case against a Cork man charged with having a sawn-off shotgun following an alleged shooting incident and high-speed chase through Cork city.

A young man who stabbed his best friend ten times in the neck was today found guilty of murder and jailed for life.

THE man on trial for murdering his friend by stabbing him repeatedly in the neck threatened fellow school children with knives and scissors at the age of 11, it emerged yesterday.

A man was stabbed 10 times in the neck as he sat on a sofa in his flat, it was claimed yesterday as the victim’s friend was put on trial for murder.