The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the jail sentence imposed on a 33-year-old Limerick man for the manslaughter of his friend whom he injected with heroin and was later found dead in a laneway from seven to five years.

A Kerry teenager whose aggravated sexual assaults of two women within weeks included a threat to kill the second victim has today been jailed for 11 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Kerry teenager who sexually assaulted two women and threatened to kill one of them in 2006 will be sentenced next December by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Limerick solicitor advised a man accused of murder to answer "I can't remember" to questions put to him by gardai investigating a fatal stabbing, a jury has heard.