THE owners of a Co Kilkenny nursing home which was closed down by the health authorities have been ordered to pay almost €38,000 compensation to two former staff members.

STAFF who raised concerns about the ill-treatment of patients at a private nursing home — which has since lost its licence — were constructively dismissed, trade union SIPTU has claimed.

THERE was a celebrity line-out for Munster and Irish hooker Frankie Sheahan yesterday as he married long-time girlfriend Norma Murphy.