A man who threatened to “chop up” his sister and any member of her family that “gets in my way” because of a dispute over the sale of their family home has been sentenced to four years.

GARDAÍ are warning elderly people to avoid letting strangers into their home after a safe containing €20,000 in cash was stolen by two men posing as workers.

A case of mistaken identity which sparked a “riot” in a Tallaght housing estate has lead to prison terms and suspended sentences being imposed on a group of young men.

AN OUTSPOKEN local politician who won a landmark High Court case on disability payments a decade ago died at the weekend.