Commemorations might be about the past, but many of the people attending the 1916 Rising parade were thinking of the future and of their children’s futures.

A man who drove at a garda with a 16-year-old pregnant girl in the back of the car has been jailed for five years and banned from driving for life.

A JUDGE has warned young drivers in Co Donegal he will consider imposing curfews as he handed down a 25-year driving ban and a 22-month jail term to a man convicted of dangerous driving.

Dozens of gardaí gathered at a bedside vigil today for their young colleague who was left fighting for life after being mown down by suspected car thieves.