One of the country’s best known publicans said yesterday he can’t afford to retire and that his Orchard Inn pub in south Dublin — bought for a record €22m nine years ago — is probably worth half of that today.

A woman, whose husband is on trial for her murder, was not wearing her wedding ring a week before her death, a witness has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court.

Judge Frank O’Donnell has told the man found guilty of shooting publican Charlie Chawke during an armed robbery that he should be professionally represented by a legal team at his upcoming sentence hearing.