A 57-year-old woman was found dead in a chair at her Kerry home after an alleged failure the previous day to diagnose she was suffering from a heart problem, a court has heard.

The mother of a teenager found stabbed to death in Killarney almost three years ago talked yesterday of the devastating effect the death of her eldest son has had on her family.

A 19-year-old student was found guilty of conspiring to assault a teenager two years ago on the night he died from a single stab wound.

Failure to detect a man’s heart problems resulted in a father-of-two dying suddenly at the age of 42 and today his family was awarded almost €500,000 in settlement of their civil action against the Health Service Executive.