A bid by a Limerick man to overturn his conviction for raping a woman in her home almost four years ago was rejected today.

A Limerick man who raped a Tipperary woman in her home has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Limerick man who threatened to kill a woman, just hours after his brother was murdered in the city's notorious feud, has been jailed for eight months.

A 19-year-old Limerick man had both his eyeballs lacerated and was blinded for life after he was assualted with a hurley, a court heard today.