The manager of a Marks & Spencer food store has denied claims by a former employee that staff were being given impossible deadlines by which to check food expiry dates.

A former sales adviser in the food section in the Killarney branch of Marks and Spencer Ireland says he was unfairly dismissed.

THE partner of a 27-year-old man stabbed to death in a Killarney housing estate in January 2005 yesterday described his last moments.