An award-winning food producer that got into a financial stew over unmanageable start-up debts has been given a new lease of life by a High Court judge.

The High Court has appointed an interim examiner to an award-winning Tipperary food manufacturing company that employs 18 people.

A burglar who terrorised an elderly woman before telling her his life story and asking for a cup of tea has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.