A Limerick man wrote off a car when he attacked it with a hatchet, a court heard.

I READ with some confusion Tom Sykes’s column headlined ‘Dylan show proves he’s some jokerman’ (December 7). Mr Sykes claims to have spent €80 per head for tickets to see Bob Dylan at the 02 and returned to watch Kasabian there “almost a year after I watched Dylan”.

READING your series on Great Irish Speeches (September 20/21), the thought struck me as to how de Valera’s famous ‘comely maidens’ broadcast speech on St Patrick’s Day 1943 would have to be rewritten were it to be delivered today. So, with apologies to my late fellow-Limerickman ...