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Mallow hairdresser stabbed husband in the back after wine and cider binge

AN unemployed hairdresser in a doomed marriage drank six glasses of wine and seven pints of cider on the night that ended with her stabbing her husband in the back with a carving knife.

 

Local groups welcome operation targeting drug dealers

LOCAL political, business and drug groups yesterday welcomed a major Garda operation targeting drug dealers in Dublin city centre.

 




Court laws 'fly in face of the Constitution'

NEW laws banning an accused person and their lawyers from court hearings into their detention "fly in the face of the Constitution" according to civil rights experts.

 




Case collapses in probe of notorious security base raid

THE Public Prosecution Service in the North has dramatically dropped all charges against a US citizen accused of involvement in the notorious break-in at Castlereagh top security base in 2002.

 




Man got under-10s to pose for child porn

A MAN who got girls of less than 10 years of age to strip at his home in West Cork and then get into sexual poses with him in order to generate child pornography was jailed for six years yesterday.

 




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