A taxi driver forced to drive at knife point by a convicted rapist, has described the ordeal as the "most traumatic event of his life".

A MAN as strong and old as some of the trees he’s planted was honoured yesterday for his remarkable service to Irish forestry over 70 years.

A man who took part in the gang rape of a woman in Cratloe, Co Clare in 2004, when he was aged 16, has been jailed this afternoon for failing to notify Gardaí of where he was living.