A five-year jail sentence has been imposed on a man who rammed gardaí in a patrol car when he drove at them in reverse at high speed on a narrow country road in North Cork.

Gardaí were rammed at high speed by a stolen jeep driven in reverse on a narrow country road in North Cork, with a judge saying the two officers were almost killed on the night.

Two men who stole over €123,000 in life savings from a pensioner were caught “drinking their way through the money” the very next day.

Thieves targeted the home of a pensioner just hours after gardaí recovered more than €100,000 of his life savings which had been stolen the day before.