Bobby ‘Mr Moonlight’ Ryan’s children have initiated legal action against the man who murdered their father.

The prosecution case against farmer Patrick Quirke, who denies murdering his love rival Bobby 'Mr Moonlight' Ryan, is "forensically barren" but calls on the support of the jury's common sense, lawyers for the State have said.

The mother-of-two was waiting for her car when the driver showed up hours later intoxicated.

A man blinded in an industrial explosion has regained partial sight after his son’s tooth was lodged into one of his eyes in a groundbreaking operation.