Thousands of commuters across Ireland will be left stranded on Thursday night when bus drivers go on strike.

A man who subjected a female student to more than hour of horrific sexual and physical assault near her south Dublin home in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

A man violently attacked a teenage girl on the Nitelink bus during an extremely psychiatric episode following a breakdown suffered at a Tony Quinn seminar, a court has heard.