A judge has refused to jail pensioners Martin and Violet Coyne, who faced prison for contempt of court by defying a judge’s order to have left their home by midnight on Tuesday.

THE supreme champion at the Connemara Pony Show was bred and owned by a local man, Henry O’Toole, Faulkeeragh, Clifden. Castle Urchin is by Abbeyleix Owen out of Castle Dame, and was also chosen as the confined champion of the show and the best mare aged eight to nine years.