A systems engineer had no entitlement to cut down his next-door neighbour’s 50ft-high trees, a judge in the Circuit Civil Court ruled yesterday.

A teenage father-of-one whose unprovoked assault left a passer-by unconscious in a pool of blood on New Year's Day has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

A 19-year-old father-of-one, whose unprovoked assault on a passer-by on New Years Day left him unconscious in a pool of blood, has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.