Harrowing scenes of a double shooting in a foiled post office robbery were played at an inquest today.

The inquest into the death of Terence Wheelock has resumed at the Dublin City Coroner's Court.

Dublin City Coroner's Court has referred the death of Brian Murphy almost seven years ago back to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

THE parents of a two- year-old haemophiliac boy who died when an artery was punctured during a hospital operation appealed to the Government yesterday to ensure his death is fully investigated.

Dublin City Coroner's Court has begun hearing inquests into the deaths of three of the four Irish people killed by December's tsunami in southern Asia.

AN 11-year-old boy, who received head injuries playing football in a schoolyard, died days after being released from hospital without a scan, an inquest heard yesterday.

Louise Hogan