A sister of Limerick murder victim Breda Waters has admitted at the Central Criminal Court she was having an affair with one of the accused but it ended a month prior to the shooting dead of Ms Waters and Desmond Kelly.

A trial of two men accused of a double murder in Limerick has heard the victims “met death in a violent fashion.”

Warwickshire and South Down advanced to the semi-finals of the Lory Meagher Cup following this afternoon's quarter-final action.

The PSNI has said foul play is not suspected in the death of a man whose body was found in a graveyard on the outskirts of east Belfast on Tuesday morning.

The Standards in Public Office Commission has considered the implications for spending limits for TDs, in relation to the recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of Desmond Kelly.