A round up of today's other stories in brief
Georgian man killed in Tralee named
The man killed in Tralee on Saturday was named by gardaí yesterday as George Tkeshelashvili (47), a Georgian national.
He died in hospital on Saturday afternoon after a row at an apartment complex used to house asylum seekers in the town centre where he was visiting.
Monaghan council fined by EPA
Monaghan County Council was fined a total of €1,600 and ordered to pay costs and expenses amounting to €7,142 by a District Court judge yesterday for breaches of environmental legislation at a landfill site used by the local authority.
The prosecution was taken by the Environmental Protection Agency, with an address at Johnstown Castle Estate, Co Wexford, against Monaghan County Council, with offices at The Glen, Monaghan town.
The council faced a total of 25 charges arising from breaches of the regulations regarding the disposal of waste at the landfill site at Scotch Corner, Co Monaghan, on various dates last year, but on the entry of a guilty plea by the council to eight of the charges, the EPA agreed to withdraw the remaining 17 counts.
In convicting the public authority, in what was one of the first prosecutions of its kind in the region, Judge Flann Brennan imposed fines of €200 in respect of each charge and also ordered payment by the council of €2,645 costs and €4,497 expenses to the EPA.
Bowls champion takes legal action
A legal challenge by a former road bowls champion to a decision to suspend him for a year has been adjourned for three weeks at the High Court.
Tim Pat O'Donovan (34), of Windsor Hill, Glounthaune, Co Cork, and a member of the Ballinacurra Bowls Club, Midleton, Co Cork, is seeking an injunction restraining Bol Chumann na hÉireann (BCÉ) from suspending him for allegedly bringing the game into disrepute.
The injunction application was listed for hearing yesterday, but an adjournment was sought by David Holland SC, for the defendants. Mr Holland said he had received two affidavits from the plaintiff's side on Friday last and needed time to respond to those.
Tom Creed SC, for Mr O'Donovan, opposed the adjournment application. The suspension of Mr O'Donovan breached the rules of BCÉ and due process had not been accorded, he said. His client needed to practise and to play in order to stop going "stale".
Mr Justice John MacMenamin said he would grant an adjournment for three weeks peremptorily against the defendants. He made directions for the exchange of affidavits between the parties and returned the case to November 7th.
Last Friday, Mr Holland had received two affidavits disputing what had happened at the meeting which decided on the suspension of Mr O'Donovan.
The affidavits effectively said a false account had been given of that meeting.
Mr Holland said he required time to respond to those.