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 manner in which the good character of a farmer, who was killed when a neighbour drove the prongs of a teleporter into him, was "shredded" during trial was "even more harrowing" than hearing the "grotesque details" of how his life ended, the victim's brother has said.

A 63-year-old north Kerry farmer, accused of murder, drove the forks of his teleporter through a car window and also on top of the vehicle as there was no other way to stop a neighbouring landowner using a loud crow banger, he reportedly told gardaí on the day of his arrest.