Michael Flatley’s mother was yesterday laid to rest beside her husband in the picturesque village of St Mullins in Co Carlow.

Doctors for a man, suing the makers of an allegedly faulty heart defibrillator, believe that removing the device now would pose a greater risk than leaving it in place.

A man has been jailed for three years by Judge Tony Hunt after gardaí found a semi-automatic pistol in the attic of his family home.