A meat factory worker has been jailed for nine years for using his boning knife to kill his housemate after losing hundreds of euro to him in poker.

Tomasz Paszkiewicz has been cleared of murder, but convicted of the manslaughter of fellow Polish man Marek Swider in Co Cavan, who he killed with a boning knife from a meat factory’s ‘kill floor’.

A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the murder trial of a meat factory worker, who killed his poker opponent with a knife from the factory’s ‘kill floor’.

A judge has praised a young Cavan woman who came to the aid of a dying man on the street as she left work on New Year’s Eve.

A 39-year-old man has admitted killing his housemate, following a row over a New Year’s Eve poker game at their Cavan home. He stabbed him with a knife he used in his job on the ‘kill floor’ in a meat plant.