A judge has agreed to give one last chance to a convicted sex offender who poses a risk to public safety.

A stonemason who carried out two unprovoked serious assaults, one of which was on a friend, has been jailed for three and a half years.

Another bid by businessman Breifne O’Brien aimed at halting his trial for alleged offences including theft and deception has been rejected by the president of the High Court.

SINN FÉIN opposed the appointment of an EU commissioner because of his strongly-held Catholic convictions.

I WISH Sinn Féin and the IRA would consider decommissioning in the context of the wishes of the Irish people and our constitution rather than in the context of concessions to the DUP.