A 21-year-old Limerick man has been found guilty of murdering a man on his 40th birthday in a case of mistaken identity.

A senior garda in a Limerick murder investigation has denied that any deal was struck with the chief prosecution witness in the case.

THE family of a young Down Syndrome woman blocked from testifying about being allegedly sexually assaulted have criticised Irish legislation as “archaic” and demanded the Government overhaul laws for disabled people.

A KERRY couple, whose Down syndrome daughter was deemed unfit to give evidence against a man alleged to have sexually attacked her, are taking their fight to the European Court of Human Rights.

THE Government has vowed to examine a legal loophole which fails to support disabled victims of sex offences in court and which is liable to land it before the European Court of Justice.

AS FAR as Laura Kelly is concerned the man who allegedly got into her bed and sexually assaulted her in February 2006 has gone away because she was able to stand up and tell a judge what had happened to her.