The chef husband of one of Ireland’s best-known TV cookery show presenters was today given a conditional nine-month suspended jail sentence for possessing up to 1,000 computer images of children, some as young as five.

A quiet fishing village in Co Donegal was tonight preparing for an influx of fans for country singer Daniel O’Donnell’s wedding.

Doubts arose tonight over evidence presented by State-protected witnesses in key courtroom trials after the overturning of a guilty verdict against one of two men jailed for the 1996 murder of investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.