Southern Editor A 53-year-old businessman from Co Cork has been jailed for five years after he pleaded guilty to charges including threatening to kill and assault causing harm to his ex-wife. Michael Quirke, of Manor Hills, Rathcormac, was ordered to have no contact on his release from prison with his former wife, Mary, from whom he divorced in 2013, or with their three adult children. Cork Circuit Criminal Court was told that although the couple were divorced and he had signed his interests in his fuel business over to her, they continued to live in the same house and he continued to work in the business for a number of years afterwards.