An umpire was struck a number of times with a hurley “in the white heat of battle”, at a Division 2 match in Co Kerry, a court was told yesterday .

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

The nephew of a murder accused said his uncle stabbed the deceased in the chest with a a foot-long butcher knife in a statement read to the jury yesterday.

BOTH semi finals of the Droopys Stud Munster Oaks at Waterford on Saturday had similar outcomes with the early pace-setter caught in the dying strides.