The heartbroken family of a young Dubliner shot dead by a police officer in America today revealed they will never get justice for his killing.

The inquest into the death of a 20-year-old Irishman who was shot by a police officer in United States has been opened and adjourned in Dublin.

AN OFFICIAL report in Britain calling for ecstasy to be downgraded to a class B drug may be examined here by the Government’s expert body on drugs.

Gardaí have been forced to rent rooms in a hotel because there is no space left in their station, it emerged tonight.

A mystery human skull pulled from the Irish Sea almost three years ago is continuing to confound gardaí, they said tonight.

A High Court action aimed at halting the inquest into the death of a young woman after she was found hanging from a door in her home has been adjourned to October.

The Dublin County Coroner is reportedly calling for urgent action to prevent further superbug related deaths at a hospital in south Co Dublin.

Unfortunately, some people have to be protected from themselves in order to protect society from their stupidity. The whole area of drugs has been the downside of our current affluence.

SAYING he presided over 26 cocaine-related deaths in 2007, the Dublin County Coroner yesterday issued a stark warning to people about the dangers of using drugs, including cocaine, which he termed “by far the biggest killer” of all.

THE husband of an Irish pilgrim whose body was found several months after she went missing in Medjugorje has said he was not surprised that the authorities in Bosnia and Ireland were unable to determine the cause of her death.

THOUGH yesterday’s dramatic events in west Cork could not have been unexpected, they were alarming and fortunate in equal measure.

Attempts by murdered mother Baiba Saulite’s family to take her two young children back to her native Latvia are being thwarted by her estranged partner, it was claimed today.

Two psychologists today told Dublin County Coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty that they were in no doubt that Cynthia Owen had been raped and gave birth to a baby that had been murdered.

A woman claiming to be the mother of a baby girl discovered stabbed to death over 30 years ago today criticised the Gardaí after the inquest was further delayed.

A garda investigation into the shooting dead of a man in Dublin’s Firhouse is still ongoing, an inquest heard today.

YOUNG people were warned of the dangers of experimenting with drugs after an inquest in Dublin heard yesterday that a young businessman jumped over a balcony and fell 50ft to his death shortly after consuming magic mushrooms.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell insisted today that exhuming the body of a baby girl from a communal grave in Dublin 33 years after her death would have created huge implications for other parents.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has rejected a request to exhume the body of a baby girl found stabbed to death in south Co Dublin 33 years ago.

The Dublin County Coroner has forwarded a request from the Gardaí to the Minister for Justice the exhumation of a baby girl who was found stabbed to death 33 years ago.

The inquest into the death of a baby girl discovered stabbed in a lane in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin in 1973 is due to resume today.

THE father of one of the Irish victims of the human form of mad cow disease yesterday criticised Health Minister Mary Harney for "brushing aside" their plea for compensation for the families involved.

THE mother of a baby girl whose body was found dumped in a laneway in Dún Laoghaire over 32 years ago has made an impassioned plea for the full facts of her daughter’s death to be established.

NIAMH (not her real name) was just 11 years old when she saw her newborn baby being stabbed to death with a knitting needle.

THE father of recovering heroin addict Derek Cooper, who was found dead in a toilet of a hostel above an Amsterdam Irish pub with morphine in his pocket and a syringe beside him, says there was blood on his clothes and all over the cubicle.