A Cork woman living in London who flew home for one day every month to sign on for jobseeker’s allowance was given a three-year suspended jail sentence yesterday.

The two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday.

Although stripped of any managerial decision making on the future of Co Waterford-based Cappoquin Chickens Limited, its Muslim director Perwaiz Latif will play a significant role in its success under examinership, the High Court ruled yesterday.

Cappoquin Poultry, the debt-ridden Co Waterford chicken processing company, has a reasonable prospect of survival as a going concern, the High Court was told yesterday.

By Ray Managh

Convicted wife killer Brian Kearney has been refused a Supreme Court appeal.

A FOUR-year jail sentence was imposed on a father of 10 who claimed over €40,000 in social welfare benefits at a time when he had €3.3 million going through one of his bank accounts and failed to pay €1.65m in tax.

REIGNING Waterford SHC champions De La Salle needed an injury-time point to salvage a draw, 1-13 apiece, against Foumilewater in a thrilling group championship game at Dungarvan yesterday.

A YOUNG solider bound for Lebanon revealed she can hardly wait to follow in her father’s footsteps and serve overseas.

NIALL McNAMEE and Niall Darby hit 13 points between them, as 2008 champions Rhode booked their place in the Offaly SFC final with this impressive performance at O’Connor Park on Saturday.

The Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgement today on an attempt by convicted murderer Brian Kearney to have his case heard by the country’s highest court.

FACING at least five years behind bars, prisoner 55511 was escorted from the courts and driven by prison officers to Mountjoy Jail.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today rejected claims made on behalf of convicted murderer Brian Kearney that the quality of the circumstantial evidence in the case against him was insufficient to exclude the possibility that someone else murdered his wife Siobhan.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed Brian Kearney's appeal against his conviction for killing his wife Siobhan at their Dublin home.

NEW measures that will allow courts to re-open murder and serious sexual assault cases if fresh evidence comes to light have been announced by Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern.

An appeal by Brian Kearney against his conviction for the murder of his wife Siobhán will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) at the end of July.

AN APPEAL by Brian Kearney against his conviction for the murder of his wife Siobhán at their family home will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) later this year.

An appeal brought by Brian Kearney against his conviction for the murder of his wife Siobhán at their family home will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal later this year.

BRIAN KEARNEY has lodged the grounds for his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Siobhan at their family home in south Dublin two years ago.

A former roofer has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing heroin valued €6,000 in March of last year.

NOT a single record exists to explain why the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive (HSE) decided to publish three reports on the cancer-screening crisis on the same day.

BRIAN KEARNEY has lodged an appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife at their family home in south Dublin two years ago.

Dublin man Brian Kearney, who was given a life sentence for murdering his wife Siobhan at their home, has lodged an appeal to his conviction.

ABOUT 50 submissions have been received by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as part of a review of its long-standing policy not to give reasons for decisions on whether or not to prosecute some criminal cases.

VICTIM support groups and Fine Gael have led calls for the mandatory use of victim impact statements in murder trials.

THE final moments of the closing act in a long, detailed and tense trial, especially a murder trial, are usually charged with great tension and emotion.

“THERE’S no joy anymore. There never will be without Siobhán.”

THE fateful knock finally came at 3.45pm.

BRIAN KEARNEY last night began a life sentence for the murder of his wife Siobhán with her family saying in an emotional statement he ceased to be human when he killed her.

IN June 2003 in an interview with a Sunday newspaper, Siobhán Kearney spoke movingly of her love of her new life on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca where she and her husband, Brian, had bought a hotel just six months earlier.

Brian Kearney tonight began a life sentence for the murder of his wife Siobhan with her family saying in an emotional statement he ceased to be human when he killed her.

An electrical contractor was jailed for life today for strangling his wife to death with the flex of a vacuum cleaner and staging the scene to look like a suicide.

The jury in the trial of an electrical contractor accused of strangling his wife with a vacuum cleaner flex resumed its deliberations for a second day today.

THE jurors in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his wife two years ago were yesterday told to be cold, analytical and dispassionate when reaching a verdict.

The jury hearing the trial of murder accused Brian Kearney has retired to a hotel for the night after just over three hours deliberation.

The jurors in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his wife two years ago were today told to be cold, analytical, and dispassionate when reaching a verdict.

A JURY hearing the trial of Brian Kearney were told by his defence counsel to be particularly cautious of scientific and forensic evidence when deciding if his client is guilty.

BRIAN KEARNEY had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhán a jury in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin heard as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases yesterday.

AS the trial of businessman Brian Kearney for the murder of his wife Siobhán enters its final stage, the focus of the case switched perceptibly yesterday to the eight women and four men who constitute the jury.

Brian Kearney had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhan, a jury in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard, as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases today.

THE jury hearing the trial of Brian Kearney, who is charged with murdering his wife Siobhán has been sent home for the weekend with a warning not to draw any early conclusions about what went on in the family’s home two years ago yesterday.

A SUBDUED air hung over the Central Criminal Court yesterday as the trial of Brian Kearney for the murder of his wife Siobhán moved towards its concluding stages.

The jury hearing the trial of Brian Kearney who is charged with murdering his wife Siobhan has been sent home for the weekend with a warning not to draw any early conclusions about what went on in the family’s home two-years ago yesterday.

The jury hearing the trial of Brian Kearney who is charged with murdering his wife Siobhan did not sit today after confusion over when a jury member had to attend a funeral.