A woman who was the victim of a “vicious” knife attack from a man she was in a relationship with 15 years prior has said that she has to live with the “guilt” of bringing this man into her life and every day she asks herself how could she “have been such a bad judge of character.”

An 18-year-old who burgled a house with a number of other youths on the morning that two gardai were killed when their patrol car was rammed by joyriders has been given three years detention by Judge Michael White.