The injured party was socialising in Temple Bar when he was approached by McDonagh who asked him for a cigarette.

A MAN pleaded not guilty to holding his mobile phone while driving and said, instead, what he was holding was a sat nav on a phone to find his way around Portlaoise as he was new to the area.

Anthony Nolan, 84, of Richmond Road, Fairview, was charged with harassment

An inquest into Jordan Dunbar’s death heard he had been upset about an alleged threat to burn his house down