A MAN who threatened to kill and to cut out the eye of a sales assistant at a jewellery shop, if she continued to look at a panic button, was jailed for nine years yesterday.

A CIRCUIT Court judge “erred in law” by quashing an Equality Tribunal ruling that a secondary school indirectly discriminated against Travellers by not admitting a 13-year-old Traveller boy as a student, the High Court heard yesterday.

YESTERDAY’S circuit court ruling hinged on the school’s “parental rule”, which favoured boys who had a parent who previously attended the school.

A County Tipperary school has today won an appeal against an Equality Tribunal ruling that it discriminated against Travellers in its admissions policy.

IN a landmark decision, a court ruled that a man who died from acute alcohol poisoning, was responsible for his own drinking and bar staff who served him could not be blamed.

COMMON sense has prevailed in the case against a bar manager and a barman accused of the unlawful killing of an English man who died of alcohol poisoning in Thurles three years ago.

A LANDMARK prosecution which sees hotel barmen charged with manslaughter arising out of the death of a guest who died from acute alcohol intoxication was adjourned to May 3 at Nenagh Circuit Court.

THE trial of two barmen charged with the manslaughter of a man who died from alcohol intoxication has been adjourned.

TRIBUTES were paid at Nenagh Circuit Court to well known Co Tipperary legal figure, Jim Kelly who died recently.

A RECLUSE who fled his Waterford home after he was assaulted and became the subject of a vigilante attack has been placed on the sex offender’s register until his next court appearance in June, 2004.