THE killer of a 25-year-old Co Cork man was jailed for life yesterday as the murdered man’s family described the terrible loss and being left with an empty space at their table.

The jury in the murder trial going on for the past seven weeks in Cork has returned a verdict of guilty today after deliberating for three hours and 44 minutes.

IN response to your lead story headlined ‘Rights body calls for legalised abortion’ (January 28), how can Ireland be violating the right to “freedom from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, life and equal protection under the law” when we are one of the few countries left protecting those very rights?