LEGISLATION on the rights of homeowners to defend their property from intruders is likely to be published early in 2007.

IN 1869, not long after the American Civil War, Philip Sheridan, a US army general, was heard to remark: “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”

Emotions ran high following the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of Padriag Nally at Dublin Central Criminal Court today.

The manslaughter trial of Mayo farmer Padráig Nally resumed at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today after he was released from hospital where he was being treated for a medical condition.

The son of a Traveller shot dead by Mayo farmer Padráig Nally has said the death F***ed up his whole family and that the accused had been allowed to walk around “Scotch free”.

The jury in the trial of a County Mayo farmer accused of the manslaughter of a father-of-eleven over two years ago has been shown maps of where the killing took place.

THE Irish Examiner has taken one of the top honours in the annual Law Society awards for journalism.

CO MAYO farmer Padraig Nally will find out today if he has been successful in an appeal against his conviction for the killing of a man on his land two years ago.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved its judgment in the appeal of Co Mayo farmer Padraig Nally who was jailed for six years for shooting dead a Traveller on his land in 2004.

A County Mayo farmer jailed for killing a traveller on his land was today refused leave to appeal against the conviction.

JUST before Christmas in 1996, an elderly farmer was awoken in the early hours of the morning. Pat Duggan lived alone in an isolated cottage near Claregalway in Co Galway.

THERE’S a powerful scene in the film of John B Keane’s play The Field where The Bull McCabe, a tenant farmer played by Richard Harris, raises his stick in angry defiance at being told that the three acres of rocky wasteland he has slaved over is about to be sold.

Travellers are living in fear as they go about their day-to-day business due to the fall-out from the sentencing of a Co Mayo farmer, groups said tonight.

RTÉ’S Prime Time programme on the Padraig Nally case attracted almost record viewing figures on Tuesday night.