A SPLENDID four-year-old gelding, Woodfield Indy, won the ridden hunter championship at the 92nd Dungarvan Show for Rosemary Connors, Woodstown, Co Waterford.

AN estimated 10,000 people attended the Bantry Agricultural Show last Sunday.

A life sentence was imposed today on a young Corkman convicted of murder and in an extraordinary moment in court the victim’s mother said that she did not want anything bad to be said against the accused and she wished him well.

The jury at the murder trial in Cork are expected to retire to consider their verdict tomorrow as the two-week trial draws to a close.

The jury at the murder trial in Cork were shown a video today of the accused man telling gardaí that he stabbed Patrick Walsh, punched him twice and then stabbed him again.

A young man on trial for murdering a man in his bedroom in Cork city last year told gardaí during an interview a few days later that he stabbed him a number of times and was sorry, according to evidence presented today.

A Cork city murder victim was stabbed four times in the head and six times in the neck with a knife and scissors and was heard to call out for his mother before he died from his multiple wounds.

The ex-girlfriend of a man accused of murder testified today that he telephoned her and said he and others only went to the victim’s house for money and never meant to kill him.

A 28-year-old Cork man was found lying on his own bed with 13 stab wounds after he was murdered during a robbery, it was claimed today at the opening of the first murder trial in Cork city in the history of the State.

The first murder trial to be heard in Co Cork since the foundation of the State is to get underway at the Central Criminal Court today.

The trial of a Cork man accused of murder has been adjourned because a judge was unavailable at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man accused of murdering another man in Cork city last May had the case against him sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court today.

Gardaí arrested a man early today and charged him with committing a murder in Cork city last May.

A teenager accused of murdering a man in Cork city in May was returned for trial today to the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

Former champion Johnny O'Sullivan and co-driver Pat Cashman take a four point lead over Alan Ring (Subaru Impreza N10) and Barry Coleman (Subaru Impreza WRC) to Waterford for the latest round of the 023 Tiles Southern 4 Rally Championship.