Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey has received an eight-week sideline ban after he chose not to contest the proposed suspension last night.

Roscommon 1-13 Kerry 1-19: Panic over for Kerry. For now, anyway. Lose this and Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s men would have spent the two weeks to Dublin’s visit to Tralee entrenched in the Division 1 relegation zone.

The wait for a fairytale goes on. But oh how close New York came to making history in the Bronx last night.

A convicted murderer has appealed his conviction on grounds that gardaí “harvested” evidence from him after telling his solicitor he was in custody on foot of a separate matter.

The man who died as a result of a house fire in Co Roscommon has been described as a very popular man in the region.

An armchair adventurer’s search for a female companion to spend a year with him on a deserted island has ended in failure.

An adventurer’s search for a female companion to live with him on a deserted Donegal island has dozens of high-flyers offering to cast off their careers for the chance to become a castaway.

Some blind dates can seem interminable but one man in search of a woman has promised their rendezvous will only last a year — unless of course true love blossoms.

Increased numbers of people suffering strokes in Kerry are expected to survive the medical condition because of a new improved service at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.

AFTER Mayo’s domination of the Connacht minor football grade over the last three years, both Galway and Roscommon will be eager to seize the opportunity to claim success in tomorrow’s provincial decider at Dr Hyde Park.

ONE of the most outstanding journalists of her generation, Geraldine Kennedy announced yesterday she is to step down as editor of the Irish Times.

THE killer of a 25-year-old Co Cork man was jailed for life yesterday as the murdered man’s family described the terrible loss and being left with an empty space at their table.

As John McManus’s killer was jailed for life his 18-year-old sister Mary revealed the devastating effects of murder

The family of the 25-year-old Fermoy man who was murdered at his flat in Cork told today how they never imagined their loved one would meet such a gruesome end.

The jury in the murder trial going on for the past seven weeks in Cork has returned a verdict of guilty today after deliberating for three hours and 44 minutes.

FOUR jurors at a murder trial in Cork were unable to make it to court yesterday due to icy roads.

The woman who has been on trial for several weeks for the murder of a young Cork man whose body was found in a field in Kerry walked free this afternoon when the trial judge directed the jury to find her not guilty.

THE lawyer for the woman on trial for several weeks for the murder of a young Corkman whose body was found in a field in Kerry claimed yesterday there was absolutely no evidence against her.

THE body of a young man was kept in the boot of a car parked in a residential part of the Turner’s Cross area of Cork city for four days before being driven to a field in Kerry, the man accused of murdering him said yesterday.

A MURDER-accused told a trial yesterday: “I am heartbroken over my friend, I cannot understand how he died — I wasn’t hitting him that hard.”

THE palm print of a woman on trial for murdering a young man in Cork two years ago was found on the broken handle of a sweeping brush at the dead man’s flat.

THE man on trial for murder in Cork told gardaí that he did not ring an ambulance, priest or gardaí the next morning when he found that the young man was not breathing and said that instead he got a fright and left the flat.

THE jury in the murder trial taking place at the Central Criminal Court heard a recording of a phone call between the two accused yesterday.

THE man who denies murdering a Fermoy man two years ago spoke to a detective on a car journey to a court and said: “I fucked up badly. I gave him a few slaps alright. He owed me about €500.”

THE employer who allegedly told his employee that he would not pay her when she was serving on the jury of murder trial apologised yesterday and said she would be paid.

THE man and woman on trial in Cork for murder had been on the run for a few days before gardaí found them in Tralee, Cork Circuit Criminal Court was told yesterday.

THE body of a Fermoy man was found on waste ground off a side road in Kerry with his hands bound in front of him with a white shoelace, the murder trial jury heard yesterday.

A GARDA spotted a shovel in a car and jokingly asked the driver if it was for burying a body — the driver is now on trial for murder.

THE victim in a murder trial was looking for €600 or €700 – possibly for drugs – on the day he disappeared, his mother and father have told the jury.

The trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a young Fermoy man at his flat in Cork city two years ago has opened in Cork this afternoon

A man and a woman were charged today with murdering 25-year-old Fermoy man, John McManus, at a flat in Cork city in October 2008 – amid tearful scenes in and around Cork District Court.

A man in his 40s is due before Cork District Court this morning charged in relation to the murder of John McManus in November 2008.

A woman in her 30s is due before Cork District Court later, charged in connection with the murder of a Corkman whose body was found in Co Kerry in November 2008.

RECESSION blues were put on ice as old Celtic Tiger champagne times sparkled in west Clare for the wedding of singer Andrea Corr and Brett Desmond.

Gardaí have arrested a woman this morning as part of their investigation into the murder of a 25-year-old Cork man last November.

GARDAÍ believe a man whose body was found dumped in a remote marsh in Co Kerry last Thursday was killed in his Cork city flat up to a week beforehand.

A 26-YEAR-OLD north Cork man allegedly assaulted by a group of young men two weeks ago died in hospital yesterday.

A murder investigation has been launched into the death of a man whose body was discovered near the village of Ballyduff in north Kerry on Thursday night.