A banjo player described as a "gentleman who wouldn't hurt a fly" was found dead at his ransacked home with a knife on his chest and stab wounds to his neck, a murder trial heard today.

Top musicians will remember murder victim Martin “Matt” Kivlehan at next week’s All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Sligo.

A 60-year-old Galway man was sentenced to six years for the manslaughter of a "drinking friend" at the Central Criminal court today.

A man has appeared before a special sitting of Sligo District Court this afternoon in relation to a fatal stabbing in Sligo town yesterday.

Gardai in Sligo have arrested a man in connection with a stabbing in the town earlier this afternoon.