A Chinese national who shot and murdered a Kilkenny Post master just two days after he took over running the post office from his father who died of cancer has been given a life sentence.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a raid on a post office which netted him more than €13,000.

Witnesses who saw a Kilkenny postmaster being shot say they saw a man stopping and waving a gun at the postmaster as he chased the man along Kilkenny’s Wolfe Tone Street.

A man who is on trial for the murder of a Kilkenny postmaster, who he shot following a raid that netted him about €15,000, told postal clerks "thanks" as he left, a court has heard.

A jury of six men and six women have been selected to hear the trial of a man charged with murdering a postmaster in Kilkenny on December 8, 2006.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs was on standby to provide emergency travel documents last night as efforts continued to reunite a young mother with the baby she abandoned in Australia.

YOUNG people seem to be keen to go without treats for the 40 days of Lent but few will be going to Church as often as their parents used to years ago.

Gardaí are investigating a number of allegations of sexual abuse concerning a swimming pool in New Ross, Co Wexford, it has emerged.

A TRAWLER skipper was so drunk at the helm he zigzagged his way across a harbour and narrowly avoided ploughing into a main fuel supply line at Ireland’s only refinery.