A further four independent inquiries are to be set up into allegations of Garda misconduct, it has emerged.

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro said he called the mother of one of his captives and told the woman her daughter was alive and had become his wife, according to interrogation videotapes.

An inquest into the shooting dead of an innocent man outside his home was adjourned today as a garda murder investigation continues.

NOBODY questions the need for radical reform of Ireland’s outdated coroners’ courts but Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s approach to this issue leaves much to be desired.

Former Tory Minister Douglas Hogg was heckled in a courtroom today by protesters demanding a full inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

A CORONER issued a warning yesterday about the use of the banned poison strychnine following the inquest into the death of an elderly farmer yesterday.

One of counterculture writer Hunter S Thompson’s closest friends said he was not surprised at his suicide because he had been in a lot of pain after a broken leg and hip surgery.