The Irish immigrants who settled in Syracuse, New York’s Tipperary Hill and named it after the county they’d left behind were a notoriously sentimental crowd.

A TIPPERARY man was yesterday jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of his next-door neighbour after a series of violent incidents in a quiet rural hamlet.

THE prosecution’s case against a man, accused of the murder of his next-door neighbour, concluded yesterday at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick.

TWO neighbours — one of whom is charged with the murder of the other — were involved in a previous antagonistic verbal dispute to which gardaí were called, the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Limerick, heard yesterday.

A MAN charged with murder who claims he acted in self-defence had marks to his back consistent with having been hit with an implement, the Central Criminal Court in Limerick was told yesterday.

A MAN charged with murder accepted he was responsible for stabbing his next-door neighbour to death, but was protecting himself at the time, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick heard.

A MAN accused of murdering his next-door neighbour told a detective shortly after the alleged crime he had previously been assaulted by the deceased, a court heard yesterday.

TWO children screamed as they looked through the front blinds of the family home and saw their father being stabbed to death, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick has heard.

A BITTER falling out between next-door neighbours led to murder with an ornamental dagger in a quiet rural hamlet, the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Limerick heard yesterday.

AHERLOW retained their West Tipperary SFC crown with a hard-fought win against Galtee Rovers in a free-ridden encounter in Lattin yesterday.

A man is due to appear in court in Tipperary shortly charged in connection with the death of a father of two in the village of Lattin.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man about a fatal stabbing in Co Tipperary.

GREATER numbers of people are willing to use extreme violence when they feel they are being “slighted” in some way, a leading criminologist has said.

A MAN is expected to be charged for the murder of a neighbour in a small Tipperary village at the weekend.

FORMER Limerick hurling captain Damien Reale last night confirmed his decision to quit intercounty hurling claiming he had “to stand up for what I felt was right”.

The legal row over the existence of rights of way through the historic Lissadell Estate in Co Sligo has been adjourned for several weeks.

ALTHOUGH your story of a German town considering the idea of identifying the source of dog poo by DNA was included in your lighthearted “world apart” column (March 3), it does raise important issues about the use of DNA-based identification and the creation of all-powerful databases which are open to abuse and will create far greater problems for a free society than those they will solve.

LOCAL leadership in provincial Ireland has been important over the past 200 years and we owe much to the Christian churches for the parish structures they put in place.

AS the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox must carry considerable weight when he presents us with a far different perspective of current world trends than that of established commentators and politicians in the developed world (Irish Examiner, January 2).

WHILE any attempt at cutting the number of road deaths is to be applauded, we must not allow ourselves to be carried away with the idea that excessive speed alone is to blame.

A STUDENT from Lattin, Co Tipperary, who studied with Teagasc at Clonakilty Agricultural College, is the winner of the DeLaval Cream award.

A youth who sexually assaulted and strangled an elderly nun in the grounds of a convent in Co Monaghan has been jailed for life for murder.

A 19-year-old man has appeared before Carrickmacross District Court, charged with the murder of Sr Philomena Lyons.