A plumber incorrectly converted a gas boiler leaving it spewing out lethal quantities of carbon monoxide causing the death of a woman staying at the Trident hotel in Kinsale in January 2011, it was claimed by the prosecution at the opening of a trial yesterday.

The Kinsale hen party that ended with the death of a woman by gas poisoning in a hotel room was recalled for a judge and jury yesterday as a plumber who adjusted the gas boiler days earlier went on trial for manslaughter.

Jamie Lynn Spears left hospital on Saturday with a cunning plan to outsmart the waiting paparazzi - using a decoy to give her a snapper-free exit.

SERENITY Bay, at East Ferry, Co Cork, is all about what’s inside, rather than outside.