A 17-year-old sustained slash wounds to his face and hands, requiring 100 stitches, after being viciously assaulted at his home by two men armed with a carpet knife and blades.

A man charged with heroin dealing was sent to the prison cells at a district court yesterday after telling a judge that he was a “turkey”.

The district court judge who witnessed a man exposing himself in front of him in court is not to be called to give evidence in the case.

Two young boys saw their father repeatedly slashed across the face with a carpet knife in an unprovoked assault at a daylight “ambush” at a graveyard in Ennis two years ago.