Ireland’s proposed new controversial abortion laws will take women and medics out of a legal limbo, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has claimed.

The recently published series of articles in the Irish Examiner on prostitution, trafficking and other related issues will, I hope, help progress and expedite the Human Trafficking Bill soon to be implemented by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter.

A bid to extradite an international drug smuggler convicted of killing a British policeman should be dropped until at least 2025, it was claimed today in court.

Inquests into the deaths of three men in loyalist bomb attacks in Dublin more than 30 years ago are due to get underway.