The niece of a farmer who died after his car was rammed with the prongs of a teleporter has told of the family’s dismay at the brevity of the sentence handed down in the Central Criminal Court yesterday to the neighbour who pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The family of a farmer killed in a row between neighbours in Kerry have hit out at the sentence handed down to the man convicted of his manslaughter.

The family of Anthony O'Mahony, the man killed by a Kerry farmer when he drove the prongs of a teleporter into his car, have reacted angrily to a five year sentence imposed on the man convicted of his manslaughter.