Marie Farrell has told the High Court she lied during the 2003 hearing of libel actions by Ian Bailey after gardaí "told me to stick to the story".

It was "a mad time". "It was like she had her normal life and a life with the guards," witness Marie Farrell told the court hearing the civil action by Ian Bailey against the garda commissioner and the state.

ONE of Co Cork’s longest- serving local and national politicians, Senator Peter Callanan died yesterday.