Padraig Nally, who shot Traveller John 'Frog' Ward, dies aged 81 

Padraig Nally at the Four Courts in Dublin in 2006, where he being retried for the manslaughter of John Ward in October 2004. Picture: Garrett White/Collins

Mayo farmer Padraig Nally, who became the centre of a cause célèbre 20 years ago, following the shooting dead of a Traveller John ‘Frog’ Ward, has died aged 81 following a long illness.

In November 2005, Mr Nally was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of Ward, who had been trespassing on his farm near Lough Corrib on the Mayo/Galway border.