A judge has ordered the closure of hunt kennels in Bandon that housed 36 hounds whose howling kept neighbours awake.

Howling foxhounds in kennels next to an apartment complex in Bandon will be relocated if they don’t keep the noise down.

A thirty three year-old Limerick man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his partners ex-boyfriend on August 10 2004.