A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Uncle and nephew plead guilty to manslaughter of school teacher
Two men have pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a 26-year-old school teacher in Co Clare last Christmas. Harry Dinan (30) from Waterpark Heights, Ennis, and his nephew Kevin Dinan (23) of Clarehill, Clarecastle, appeared before Limerick Circuit Court yesterday. They are both charged with the unlawful killing of Brian Casey from Lisseycasey. The victim died from head injuries following a row on O’Connell Square in Ennis on December 26th last. Both men were due to go on trial for manslaughter next month, but entered guilty pleas yesterday. They were remanded in custody to appear before the Circuit Court in Ennis on November 8th.
Man (49) dies after road rage incident
A MAN who received serious head injuries in a road rage incident on Sunday, died in hospital yesterday.
The man (49) died at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin where he was being treated after he was beaten over the head with a weapon.
The man was involved in a dispute with another driver at the junction of Tritonville Road, Sandymount Road, and Newbridge Avenue in Dublin at about 7.30pm. A postmortem will be held today.
Clareman dies after van overturns
A 25-year-old man was killed and a second man critically injured following two road incidents, writes
Kathryn Hayes.
A Co Clare man died after the van he was travelling in crashed into a ditch at Traverston, Dolla, Co Tipperary at 4pm yesterday.
In Co Limerick, four people were taken to hospital after a three-car collision near Pallasgreen at around 4pm yesterday. One of the injured men was in a critical condition last night.
Inquiry into NI sex abuse case
An independent inquiry has been announced into a notorious sex abuse case that has provoked a public outcry and political problems for a Stormont Minister, writes
Dan Keenan.
Health Minister Michael McGimpsey referred the case of two McDermott brothers to the Regulation and Quality Improvement Agency for investigation.
They were controversially allowed to return home to the Fermanagh village of Donagh, where they committed their abuse, after they were held to be mentally unfit to stand trial.
James and Owen-Roe McDermott voluntarily went into residential care last summer but the initial storm of controversy over the decision to allow them to go back to Donagh has yet to abate.
Along with two other brothers, John and Peter Paul, they faced more than 60 charges of sex abuse.
Arrests made over attempted robbery
Two people were arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating the false imprisonment of former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan and his family and the attempted robbery of a bank in Kilkenny last November.
The man in his 30s and the woman in her 20s were both arrested in the Dublin area. They were taken to Kilkenny Garda station yesterday.
The man was being held under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007, while the woman was being held under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939.
An armed gang broke into Mr Ronan's home at Ballycallan, Co Kilkenny, on the morning of November 3rd, 2009.
They held his family at gunpoint as part of an attempt to steal € 3 million from Mr Ronan's workplace at the Parliament Street branch of the Bank of Ireland in Kilkenny.
The robbery attempt failed and a major Garda operation was put in place.