A GARDA charged with assaulting a Polish man while in custody was heard by a colleague telling him, “Welcome to Ireland, you’re not in Poland now”, Waterford District Court was told yesterday.

DETECTIVE Garda Gerry Whelan said that when he and Detective Garda Kevin Nolan went to meet John O’Brien on October 2 after his wife had been reported missing, the accused was “very nervous”.

COURT No 2 was packed yesterday as the jury heard how Meg Walsh was out socialising and drinking with locals the night before she disappeared.

I’VE spent the last few days literally kicking my backside, ever since Sizing Europe won Sunday’s AIG Europe Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.

MISCANTHUS growers have welcomed the payment of establishment grants by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

ON this coming Thursday, March 1, a Cheltenham preview-night will be held at the Woodlands Hotel, Dunore Road, Waterford.

SECOND-TIME around Valentines’ Day groom John Walsh, 62, admitted yesterday he proposed three times to widow Ann McMahon, 59, before she said “yes”.

“ALL we want to do now is to get Meg home to our parents and give her the final send-off she deserves,” a tearful James Walsh said yesterday as he prepared to leave Waterford after a 12-day search for his sister ended with the discovery of her body.

The national executive of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) has said Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde’s assertion that the IRA carried out the multi-million euro bank heist in Belfast last month was further proof that the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe should not be released under any circumstances.