The jury will begin deliberating today in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a 10-month-old baby. Registered child-minder Sandra Higgins, aged 34, is alleged to have caused the injuries to the baby girl she was minding at her home.

A UK neuropathologist has told the trial of a child-minder charged with assaulting a baby that shaken baby syndrome has no scientific validation.

A consultant paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby that some of the baby’s injuries represented a “classic textbook case” of baby shaking.

Expert tells childminder’s trial brain injury could not reasonably have occurred before day of minding

A paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder accused of shaking a 10-month-old baby girl that it is not credible to conclude the infant's injuries were accidental.

A childminder on trial for assaulting a 10-month-old baby told gardaí the baby was not shaken in her care.

The jury has been shown photographs of bruises on the face and body of a 10-month-old baby who was allegedly violently shaken by her childminder.

A registered childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old girl.

A professional childminder has gone on trial accused of violently shaking a ten month old baby girl.

A Cavan childminder has been charged in connection with an assault on a baby.

SIGNIFICANT further price reductions have been put into place in the Woodville scheme in Cork’s Glanmire.

GARDAÍ have urged residents of an apartment block to help them find a gang which rammed a young man off the road before knifing him to death after a row about loud music.

A MAN described as a nuisance to Dungarvan was jailed for three years yesterday for stabbing a man he claimed had “propositioned” him during a party.

FRESH new house designs, but a return to an architectural feature from the past, the stair return, distinguish the new homes launched this weekend in The Beeches, Woodville, a mile from the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

I WAS annoyed over the past couple of days during the debate on farmers’ incomes.

Police were expected to make more arrests today following the trouble at Drumcree which left 31 police officers injured.

Three men have been detained by police as Orange Order chiefs pledge disciplinary action against members who attacked officers at Drumcree.