A judge said today “it wasn't a swim job, it was a paddle job” after hearing that a nearby river was only one foot deep where Gardaí apprehended a 25-year-old escapee.

A leaving certificate student who killed a Croom man after night out drinking a cocktail of beer and vodka has been sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter.

A jury has been selected to hear the trial of a Limerick student charged with murdering a 59-year-old man by stabbing him to death.