A man with a history of “incredibly sadistic and violent behaviour” has been jailed after gardaí caught him attacking his own mother as she was trying to escort him home.

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

THE wife of notorious crime boss Martin Cahill has arrived back home to fight attempts by the State to seize their plush home in leafy south Dublin.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is set to move on the homes of the wife and the lover of dead crime boss Martin Cahill.