A 65-year-old man has said he was falsely imprisoned, assaulted, and handcuffed to a radiator by his estranged wife and his son in the bathroom of a B&B.

Goalkeepers are a rare breed, hurling No 1’s especially. Diarmuid O’Flynn met two legendary netminders from Cork and Tipperary ahead of tomorrow’s provincial semi final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering a Kilkenny postmaster were told this morning the accused had no previous convictions and Gardai had checked his record with Chinese authorities.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a raid on a post office which netted him more than €13,000.

A Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a post office raid is an asylum seeker who said he had no money, could not get a work visa and was suffering from depression, the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a Kilkenny teenager told different stories to gardaí and to friends about an injury he sustained around the time of a murder of which he’s accused.

A Kilkenny teenager accused of murder allegedly said: "I didn’t do it, you are not going to make me say I did it" when he was arrested by gardaí in connection with the murder of a 36-year-old mother of three.

A Kerry-born psychiatric nurse who made video tapes of himself engaged in sexual activities with children from the ages of four to 13 has been jailed for six years by Judge Des Hogan.