New Age Travellers plead guilty to manslaughter

Three new age travellers on trial for the murder of a man on a mountainside in Leitrim in 1998 have had pleas of manslaughter accepted by the DPP.

The three will now face sentencing for manslaughter in October. They are alleged to have confronted a man who they wanted to leave their campsite and beaten him so severely that he died from his injuries. A pickaxe and an iron bar were used in the attack.