As the price of gold hits an all-time high, Shane Crossan is noticing more and more people coming to his countrywide roadshows to sell their broken or unwanted jewellery for cash.

Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002. He was convicted at trial of three counts of raping a further victim in 2022.

James Meehan, with addresses in Derry City and Headfort Grove, Kells, Co Meath, was sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment for the murder of Derry man Jim McFadden in May 2007.