A debit card belonging to a 72-year-old man who denies impeding the prosecution of his son for a fatal hit- and-run was used to pay for his son’s flight to Australia following the incident, a jury was told yesterday.

A 72-year-old man has denied a charge of impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death.

A judge and jury will hear the case against a 71-year-old man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death.

The garda file in the case against a man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death is complex and runs to 10 volumes, it emerged yesterday.

A 71-year-old man from Newmarket was arrested yesterday and charged with impeding the prosecution of his son on a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

Kildorrery 1-11 Éire Óg 1-5: A depleted Éire Óg side bowed out of the Cork IHC in Mallow yesterday, Kildorrery denying them by six points to progress beyond the fourth round yesterday.

A 70-year-old man, arrested yesterday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run in Kerry three years ago, was questioned by gardaí but released without charge.

Cork IFC: Mayfield 0-13 Rockchapel 0-5

Legal costs, paid for by the State, associated with the 14-day trial of a 23-year-old man who denied killing a father of four who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012 have amounted to just under €70,000.

The ‘Shark’ Hanlon-trained Luska Lad rolled back the years by destroying the opposition in the four-mile open at the opening session of the Kinsale point-to-point festival at a wet Farrangalway on Saturday evening.

Handler Padraig Higgins has experienced a hugely-rewarding point-to-point season and the Ballynoe-based handler recorded his eighth success of the campaign by sending out Golden Crisp to record a hugely-popular victory in the winners of two at yesterday’s well-attended second stage of the two-day South Union Foxhounds fixture at Farrangalway outside Kinsale.

Kildorrery 1-16 Kinsale 0-9: Kildorrery cruised into the fourth round of the Cork IFC after a resounding victory over Kinsale at foggy Caherlag on Saturday evening.

The widow of Paud O’Leary, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver, says the term imposed ‘doesn’t add up’ when compared to the devastation caused to her family, says Donal Hickey

A 23-year-old man who had denied being involved in a fatal hit and run admitted being responsible for the accident, soon after a guilty verdict was returned against him following a month-long trial.

IT would not be surprising if the family of Paudie O’Leary, a 42 year-old father of four who was killed in a hit-and-run accident in July 2012 outside Killarney, the people of Kerry and the gardaí who worked so hard to see that Shane Fitzgerald was convicted for the crime, were surprised if not angry with the sentenced imposed on him yesterday.

EVEN the most ardent, one-eyed champion of An Garda Síochána would have to concede that the force’s credibility took a battering over the penalty points scandal and how two whistleblowers — Sergeant Maurice McCabe and former Garda John Wilson — were treated so poorly by the force’s officer corps. 

A 23-year-old man was found guilty by a jury of dangerous driving causing the death of a 42-year-old father.

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A series of text messages, sent to friends by an accused man in a hit- and-run case, has been read out to a jury.

A jury in a fatal hit-and- run trial was yesterday shown more than three hours of CCTV footage tracking a large, grey, vehicle suspected of being involved in the incident.

A jury is due to be shown CCTV footage today tracking a vehicle suspected of being involved in a fatal hit and run, almost three years ago.

Friends of a 23-year-old man suspected of being involved in a fatal hit and run told yesterday of drinking with him into the early hours, on the day of the incident.

A man suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Co Kerry almost three years ago later told Australian police he had not been in a crash before going there.

A friend of a man charged in connection with a fatal hit and run told a court yesterday he had phoned the accused and spoken to him on the morning of the crash.

A Toyota Land Cruiser suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash almost three years ago, was registered in the name of a 22-year-old accused and he also had an insurance policy on the vehicle, a court heard yesterday.

A jury was yesterday shown how two sections of a vehicle bumper, found in separate locations near the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident, joined together.

A 42-year-old father of four died from multiple injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a hit and run accident while cycling, a court heard yesterday.

The widow of a 42-year-old hit-and-run accident victim has told how she heard the news of his death after his body had been found a short distance from their home.

Debris found at the scene of a hit and run in which a cyclist died, came from a vehicle driven by a 22-year-old man on trial in connection with the incident.

A man has gone missing from his home in Co Cork.

Cork IFC

The book of evidence is not ready for serving on a 21-year-old North Cork man charged with a fatal hit-and-run on a cyclist who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012.

A man charged in connection with the road death of a Ring of Kerry charity cyclist has secured bail.

A 21-year-old north Cork man charged with an alleged fatal hit and run on a cyclist 18 months ago has been refused bail after gardaí objected to an application by his solicitor.

Gardaí arrested a man on the runway at Cork Airport yesterday and charged him with dangerous driving causing the death in July 2012 of a cyclist preparing for the Ring of Kerry charity cycle.

A 21-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving for causing the death of a father of four in Co Kerry 18 months ago.

Kildorrery 2-15 Brian Dillons 1-18

Kildorrery 1-15 Carrignavar 1-14

Macroom 2-15 Mayfield 1-4

County senior panellist Liam Shorten was the hero of Ballingeary’s two point victory over Mayfield in the opening round of this Cork Premier IFC tie at Kilmurry on Saturday night.

Shoes for sheep, medical vests for children, and horse tail wraps were just some of the businesses unveiled by teenage entrepreneurs from schools across Ireland yesterday.

A POWERFUL second-half display with the wind, highlighted by Brendan Coughlan’s vital 45th minute goal, propelled Kinsale to their first IFC final at Riverstown on Saturday afternoon.

WOODSTOCK Golf Club from Ennis were celebrating last night after pulling off a superb victory in the final of the Chartis Pierce Purcell Shield.