A DESPERATE woman called a taxi driver and told him to “get me out of here” hours before her battered body was discovered in a pool of blood in her home.

A Co Meath man who bludgeoned a mother of three to death at her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year, has been jailed for 10 years at the Central Criminal Court.

A MAN has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a mother-of-three who was beaten to death in her Cork home last year.

DOLE backlogs are causing hardship for thousands of households, with the latest figures showing at least 7,000 newly unemployed people have been waiting more than three months for their welfare claims to be processed.

A DAUGHTER of a murdered woman made an emotional farewell to her mother, who should have been celebrating her 58th birthday next Wednesday.