A garda who survived a gun attack while on holidays in the US two years ago claimed yesterday at Nenagh District Court that he had to strike out with his fist to protect himself from a woman who he says attacked him while he was on his way home from a night out.

COUNCILLORS have hit out at the deployment of a mobile speed camera van outside a graveyard in north Tipperary.

A man in his 60s has died after the car he was driving collided with a horse in Co Tipperary yesterday evening.