The Irish Family Planning Association was accused of “scaremongering” today for supporting a legal challenge by three women opposing Ireland’s abortion laws.

Ireland’s abortion laws are being challenged in a landmark European court hearing today which could overturn the Republic’s sovereign right to protect unconditionally “the life of the unborn”.

Ireland’s abortion laws are being challenged in a landmark European court hearing which could overturn the Republic’s sovereign right to protect unconditionally “the life of the unborn”.

Europe’s top human rights court ruled yesterday that storing DNA from people with no criminal record is in breach of their rights — a landmark decision that could force Britain to destroy samples of nearly one million people on its database.

Europe’s human rights watchdog urged Ireland today to step up efforts to counter racism and to integrate asylum seekers and refugees into society.

A British woman today lost her last desperate legal battle for the right to use her frozen IVF embryos to have a baby.

GOVERNMENT assurances that at least 40 CIA flights through Shannon Airport had nothing to do with the rendition and possible torture of prisoners were rubbished in a high-level report yesterday.

A Catholic who was sacked from his job as a waiter at a Belfast hotel was today awarded £10,000 (€16,000) for ``loss of opportunity'' by judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.