A FARMER was sentenced to jail while his son and nephew got fully suspended sentences in a case where a man died after being assaulted in a long-running dispute over land boundaries.

Three men accused of the manslaughter of a 65-year-old farmer over a land dispute had the unlawful killing charge against them dropped by the state today as they pleaded guilty to assault instead.

CROSS-PARTY tributes were yesterday paid to a former Fine Gael councillor who tragically perished in a house fire in West Cork.

A woman in her 90s has died in an overnight fire at her home in Skibbereen, Co Cork.