The Court of Criminal Appeal has ruled that sentences handed down to two men for killing a Co Clare schoolteacher are too lenient.

A man was stabbed a number of times in an overnight attack in a house garden in Co Clare.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is to appeal against the leniency of sentences handed down to two men jailed earlier this month for “a cowardly and unprovoked attack” that killed Clare schoolteacher Brian Casey.