RYANAIR’S Michael O’Leary constantly rants on about how the Government’s new €10 airline travel tax is doing tremendous damage to Ireland’s tourism industry, citing its introduction for justifying route closures, reducing schedules and causing job losses.

The trial of a young Kilkenny man, accused of murdering his friend’s mother, has heard that he used a bloody €50 note to pay for a playstation game on the evening of the killing.