ONE of the many wine myths that can mislead the unwary concerns age.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore has been caught in an embarrassing ethics row after one of the party’s councillors used his free Dáil postage facility to send out local election literature.

Two members of a Chinese gang who kidnapped and robbed a fellow national as well as threatening to chop off his fingers and post them to his mother in China unless he paid them a further €15,000 have been jailed by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.