A 62-year-old man who killed his wife when he put his hands around her neck during a struggle after she came at him with a knife has been given a six-year suspended sentence.

A 62-year-old Dublin man is to be sentenced for killing his wife after she went for him with a breadknife during an argument.

A 62-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his wife “in a final act of love” to avoid private details of their life being aired at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

ALL the excitement of the All-Ireland final put to bed, it’s back to serious club business in Kilkenny and Tipperary this weekend, the senior club championships in both counties at quarter-final stage with one exception.

IT was 1984, centenary year of the GAA, and in Kilkenny, the land where hurling is the major religion, Ballyhale Shamrocks reigned supreme. Just once in the previous six years (1981), was their authority broken, beaten by The Village, the legendary James Stephens club in the city.

SUBSTITUTE Danny Purcell was Kilkenny’s hero with a match-winning goal two minutes from the end of time in a disappointing All-Ireland MHC final yesterday.

TIPPERARY were denied a possible third All-Ireland minor hurling title in a row by a ruthless Kilkenny side who produced one of the most impressive displays seen for quite some time in Croke Park in the first of the All-Ireland MHC semi-finals.

Police were today continuing to question a man in connection with the death of an Irishman who was stabbed in an unprovoked attack outside a London pub.

An Irishman who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack outside a pub had been commuting to the mainland to find work in a bid to provide for his wife and two teenage sons, police revealed today.