The jury in the trial of a plumber accused of the gas leak manslaughter of a young woman staying at the Trident hotel in Kinsale for a hen party almost four years ago deliberated throughout yesterday without reaching a verdict on any of the five charges.

A plumber incorrectly converted a gas boiler leaving it spewing out lethal quantities of carbon monoxide causing the death of a woman staying at the Trident hotel in Kinsale in January 2011, it was claimed by the prosecution at the opening of a trial yesterday.

The mother of a French student has been awarded €47,500 after he died as a result of the inhalation of gas from a cooker at his rented home in Co Cork.