AN investigation is to be launched into the death of a man at the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin over the weekend.

GARDAÍ are investigating reports that a golf ball was found lodged in the throat of a dead man.

The Dublin City Coroner has questioned the accuracy of statistics suggesting that Dublin has a lower incidence of suicide than the rest of the country.

THE family of a pensioner who has been missing for more than two years visited the site yesterday where human remains were found close to where she was last seen.

THE Dublin City Coroner has recommended the development of national guidelines to allow independent midwives access to services at maternity hospitals.

Terrified staff and customers feared for their lives during a foiled armed robbery at a village post office in which two raiders were shot dead, an inquest heard today.

GARDAÍ will give evidence from behind a screen during the inquest of two men shot dead by officers during a post office robbery, it emerged yesterday.

Gardaí will give evidence from behind a screen during the inquest of two men shot dead by officers during a post office robbery, it emerged today.

THE father of a young Dublin mother killed by a gunshot while attending a birthday party in March 2006 has expressed regret that nobody will face a criminal prosecution for his daughter’s murder.

A gunman was just inches from a dad of 10 when he discharged a fatal shot to the back of his head, an inquest heard.

Safety improvements have been recommended for Dublin’s busiest junction where an English tourist was fatally injured by a bus, an inquest heard.

A 24-YEAR-old woman was removed from special observation in a psychiatric unit only days before she hanged herself at a Dublin hospital, an inquest has heard.

A fresh inquest is to be held into the death of a 22-year-old man over a decade ago, the Dublin City Coroner’s Court found today.

THE mother of a four-year-old boy who died after he was struck by a truck as he played, in August 2001, yesterday said it was a disgrace she had not received any information about the accident.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is examining a garda file over the the deaths of two raiders shot by armed detectives during a post office robbery, a coroner’s court heard today.

ESTHER WHEELOCK said her family will not rest until they get answers to her son’s death.

A 32-year-old man consumed a cocktail of drugs before falling to his death from the top of a block of flats in Dublin’s Ballymun, an inquest heard today.

A homeless man died days after he was set alight on a Dublin Street, an inquest heard tonight.

The family of a 19-year-old man courageously donated his organs to benefit five other sick people after he died in a car accident, an inquest heard tonight.

A family is to take a court action against the State questioning the legality of the restriction of medical evidence during an inquest, it has emerged.

Inquests into the deaths of five victims of the Dublin Bus crash were adjourned for the third time today to allow criminal proceedings to conclude.

The Dublin City Coroner has set April 27 as the date for the beginning of the inquest into the deaths of the Dublin and Monaghan bombing victims.

THE prime suspect for the murder of two female patients in the grounds of a Dublin psychiatric hospital in 1997 has refused to attend an inquest into their deaths.