A man has been jailed for nine years for his part in a rural robbery on two brothers in their 60s in which the victims were bound with ties and tubing and badly beaten.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A Euromillions player has scooped an early Christmas present worth €500,000.