Man jailed for life over ‘senseless death’

A 34-year-old Kilkenny man has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering a 25-year-old man with a single stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

Tadhg Butler, with an address at Seafield in Tramore, Co Waterford, was charged with murdering Michael O’Dwyer at that address on January 10, 2014.

Butler, also known as Thomas O’Grady and originally from Kilkenny, pleaded not guilty to murdering the Kilkenny man but, after two hours and 26 minutes, the jury brought in a unanimous guilty verdict.