GREATER numbers of people are willing to use extreme violence when they feel they are being “slighted” in some way, a leading criminologist has said.

GARDAÍ have urged residents of an apartment block to help them find a gang which rammed a young man off the road before knifing him to death after a row about loud music.

A man who agreed to hold €38,000 worth of cannabis resin because he wanted money for his godchild’s christening has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.