RESIDENTS and businesspeople in Clonmel are facing traffic disruption in the coming weeks with work set to be carried out on five bridges in the town.

A Tipperary man involved in the killing of Galway pensioner Tommy Casey, who was beaten and left to die in his home in 1996, was sentenced to six years today in the Central Criminal Court.

A man on trial for the murder of a Galway pensioner has pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.