A Limerick man who successfully appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner yesterday pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.

There were around 30 reported instances every day last year where residents in nursing homes and those in centres for people with disabilities were deemed to be possibly at risk.

St. Nicholas 1-5 Dohenys 0-7 (Cork SFC Replay): Fortunate to earn a replay last week, St. Nicholas made no mistake this time when beating Dohenys by the narrowest of margins in Bandon yesterday to reach the last eight of the county SFC.

St Nicholas 2-9 Dohenys 0-15: A point by Evan Kearney in the 62nd minute earned St Nicholas a second bite of the cherry in this highly entertaining Cork SFC fourth-round tie at Bandon on Saturday night.

The liquidator to building firm Tom Hayes Ltd said yesterday that it is “a little bit unlikely” that unsecured creditors owed over €2.7m will see any of their monies.

Tensions developed between the Limerick City of Culture board and former artistic director, Karl Wallace over a proposal to stage a major international weekend event costing €1.8m, it emerged yesterday.

Nemo Rangers 2-09 St Nicholas 0-05

The Garda watchdog has criticised members of the force for being “slow” and “less than optimal” in co-operating with an investigation which ultimately led to two gardaí being convicted for assault and another for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The threat by a judge to visit a former waste transfer station had done more to have the site cleaned up than six years of court actions by the council and residents during which the defendant had “dragged his feet”.

Kieran McEnery was the St Nick’s hero in this senior football relegation play-off at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday night.

Dromcollogher-Broadford 1-10 Fr. Caseys 0-9

One of the south-west’s major waste operators, which has been operating a large waste transfer and dry recycling plant without planning in a rural area near Listowel, Co Kerry, for seven years, narrowly avoided being jailed this weekend after he gave a sworn undertaking to shut the site.

A WASTE management contractor who has run a recycling business without planning permission for more than six years has given an undertaking to cease operations at the site in north Kerry by May 31.

THE mother of former garda Daniel Hickey spoke in court yesterday of how the family have always been proud of her son, who is the second of five children.

A THIRD garda was yesterday found guilty of an offence arising out of an assault on a man who resisted arrest after being caught urinating on the street last year.

A Waterford Garda has today been found not guilty of assault causing harm, but guilty of assault on a civilian in the city last year.

A GARDA has been found guilty of assaulting a man who resisted arrest while another garda has been found guilty of intending to pervert the course of the justice by diverting a CCTV camera while the assault was taking place.

A SENIOR counsel representing a garda on trial for allegedly assaulting a man who resisted arrest has said if her client is convicted, the gardaí will “have to rethink how they deal with drunk, aggressive people” from now on.

GARDAÍ are not entitled to “hand out punishment to people there and then as they see fit”, the jury in an assault trial has been told.

ONE of the gardaí on trial for allegedly assaulting a man on the street in Waterford took to the witness box yesterday to deny he used “unnecessary force” when restraining the alleged victim.

PREFERENTIAL and unsecured creditors owed over €9 million by collapsed architectural firm, Murray O’Laoire Architects are unlikely to receive any of their money.

A DOCTOR who examined a man alleged to have been assaulted by gardaí found abrasions on his forehead and nasal area and a bruise on his left bicep, a court heard yesterday.

LUKE BURGESS proved to be the UCC matchwinner with a stunning strike in extra time to help take the famous Irish Universities Collingwood Cup back to Leeside for the first time since 2005.

A CIRCUIT court judge has expressed his frustration with delays in completing a planning process arising from the operation of an unauthorised waste recycling centre in north Kerry.

A High Court challenge has been brought to Anglo Irish Banks' decision to appoint a member of Nama's board of directors as Receiver to a number of properties in Co Clare.

EXTREMELY poor finishing cost Limerick dearly in Semple Stadium yesterday evening in this Munster minor football semi-final.

THE operator of a Kerry waste recycling facility, which does not have planning permission, was yesterday given 15 months to halt all work at the site.

WEST Limerick’s thriving €20 million a year poultry industry faces a complete wipe-out with the loss of more than 300 jobs at a processing plant.

A €25 MILLION hotel plan could be the springboard for other major developments in a north Kerry seaside resort, a would-be developer claimed yesterday.