PRESIDENT Mary McAleese and her husband, Senator Martin McAleese, were special guests yesterday afternoon at Druid’s performance of Martin McDonagh’s play The Cripple of Inishmaan on Inis Meáin, Co Galway.

THE man accused of murdering Swiss student Manuela Riedo in October 2007 sold Ms Riedo’s mobile phone to his sister’s boyfriend nine days after the killing, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.