A woman who was injured in a serious car accident testified yesterday that when the motorist was jailed for six months, the driver’s partner called to her home and assaulted her.

A house was barricaded with a stove as a woman armed herself with a knife and three men armed themselves with implements including golf clubs, an iron bar, and a machete, and taunted gardaí during a four-hour late-night stand-off with gardaí.

A house was barricaded with a stove as people armed with knives, golf clubs, and a machete threw bottles from inside during a face-off with gardaí, with a television thrown through an upstairs window.