A man whose savage drugs and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been given nine years in consecutive sentences for the assualt and for thefts from psychiatric inpatients.

Sentencing of a man whose savage drugs- and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been adjourned again while the judge considers psychiatric reports.

THE true horror of Ireland’s continued road carnage was nowhere more apparent than in Cork yesterday where tears streamed down the faces of mourners at the funeral of a young man cut down in his prime.