Letterkenny: Donegal based entrepreneurship marketing programme Seedups has established an office in Silicon Valley (the company’s new US base forms part of Enterprise Ireland’s California office).

The accused man in the Tralee murder trial was jailed for six years today after he pleaded guilty to assaulting the victim in what was described as a calculated and unprovoked attack with the intention of causing serious harm.

A MURDER trial in Tralee heard the brother of the deceased testify yesterday that he saw the accused man showing no mercy as he drove a slash hook through his brother, who was lying on the ground.

A Tralee man denied murdering another man in the town two years ago and today a trial commenced where it was claimed that the accused struck the deceased several times with a slash hook.

Two men have been detained for questioning today over the death of a father-of-six last August during the Rose of Tralee festival.

SECTIONS of the media came under fire from a Travellers’ spokesperson yesterday for giving a ‘sensationalist’ slant to serious acts of violence in the Traveller community.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed for calm among hostile rival elements of the Travelling community, in Kerry, to allow the investigation into the murder of Michael Faulkner, aged 43, in Tralee to continue.

GARDAÍ have released three people arrested in connection with the attack on a 43-year-old unemployed man who was stabbed to death in Tralee.

Two of the three men questioned by gardaí in connection with a fatal stabbing in Tralee were released without charge tonight.

Gardaí have named the man stabbed to death in Co Kerry last night as 43-year-old Michael Faulkner.