An East Cork man on a week-long drunken bender texted his wife that he would torch the house if she did not bring him drink and he later carried out an assault by punching her in the forehead and face.

A teenager’s celebrations of his 18th birthday party with friends turned into the ransacking of their local school and almost €10,000 in criminal damage.

FINGAL County Council secured a High Court order yesterday restraining bin charge protestors from interfering with the council’s bin collections.