A man who stabbed an acquaintance during a fight at a Christmas party leaving his victim permanently paralysed from the chest down has been sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A 22 year-old father of two who set fire to cars and threw a wheelbarrow at gardaí during the Love Ulster parade riot will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE McGowan family visit their son Robert’s grave every Sunday. Nine months after he was killed by a joyrider, the pain of his death is still too much to bear.