Tadhg Butler (37), with an address at Seafield House, Tramore, Co Waterford pleaded guilty last July to the unlawful killing of 25-year-old Michael O'Dwyer on January 10, 2014.

Clare County Council has been fined €50,000 at Ennis Circuit Criminal Court as a result of serious breaches of health and safety regulations.

A Kilkenny youth, who tried to kill a man twice in the same night, has been sentenced to imprisonment for nine and a half years.