A woman who suffered severe injuries in a road accident in Co Sligo has been awarded some €518,000 damages by the High Court.

A pensioner died after a choking incident in a nursing home dining room, an inquest has heard. 

Changing careers and locations is becoming the norm, when the guaranteed job for life is a thing of the past and increasingly the aim for many of us — or at least the dream — is to combine personal passions with earning a living.

A woman who was in Cork’s Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in 1975 has described the nuns who ran the institution as “evil monsters”.

Two Government departments had access to a 2012 report on “shocking” levels of infant deaths at Bessborough Mother and Baby home — despite initial claims that it did not have the report.

Waning demand in Britain for TVs and computers drove a second straight quarterly sales decline at Home Retail’s Argos, but the chain said it was still winning market share and forecast an improved performance in its second half.

A HSE report questioned if children’s death certs were falsified at Bessborough to enable ‘brokering’ of adoptions, Gardaí in Kerry are investigating criminal damage worth thousands of euro to a luxury holiday home in Aghadoe, the pressure on Sepp Blatter has intensified. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

He’s worn winning footwear from the get-go and now the boots that took Aidan O’Mahony to an All-Ireland title have gone on to raise €25,000 in a charity auction.

It’s something that veteran Kerry footballer Aidan O’Mahony has yet to figure out — how his eye fell on a young fan in the crowd just minutes after his team’s victory in the recent All-Ireland final. 

The overwhelming reaction to the Department of Justice’s intergovernmental report on mother-and-baby homes was that it was too limited and would undermine the thoroughness of any subsequent inquiry.

The Archbishop of Tuam says it is his understanding that the managers of the mother and baby Home in Tuam handed material to Galway County Council and health authorities in 1961.

The lives of 222 children whose deaths at a Protestant mother and baby home were hidden for decades have been recognised with a special memorial.

Up to 100 new nursing homes will be needed in the next seven years to cater for older people needing long-term residential care.

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The country’s largest homeless charity has warned the sector can not take any further funding cuts in the upcoming budget.

Protests outside, purchasers inside, bargains to be had and businesses gone, some €14 million back in the bank or in the pockets of vendors, and Chinese buyers making a mark — yesterday’s Allsop auction of 125 Irish property lots spanned a range of human emotions.

The Taoiseach or perhaps his civil servants and those in the Department of Justice appear worried that including Bethany Home in a redress scheme similar to that offered to Magdalene women opens up the state to further claims from broadly comparable Roman Catholic institutions.

TDs will shortly meet with survivors, says Victoria White

Key parts of Health Minister Dr James Reilly’s controversial cutbacks have been lambasted by support groups for potentially costing more money than it will save.

Home helps attached to the trade union SIPTU will march through Cork city centre later to show their opposition to their jobs being outsourced by the HSE.

THE survivors of a Protestant home for unmarried mothers where more than 200 babies died have asked for the Government’s position on including it in the redress scheme.

A CHARITY has dramatically scrapped plans to charge its clients who have physical disabilities for the upkeep of their beds, mattresses and wheelchairs.

London's FTSE 100 Index slid into the red today as jitters over the US economy overshadowed bumper profits at JP Morgan Chase.

NEW Irish care company, FRS Homecare is to create 300 new jobs over the next year and a half as it looks to grow quickly after its launch earlier this year.

The FTSE 100 Index finished ahead for the first time this week as sentiment was given a tentative boost by more upbeat corporate and economic news today.

A further banking sell off today dragged the London market to its seventh consecutive day in the red.

The London market pulled out of its nosedive today after a reversal in fortunes for beleaguered mining stocks.

Mother and baby specialist Mothercare today hailed its resilience in a “difficult” market after posting a rise in UK third quarter sales.

London’s FTSE 100 Index shed 3% today as fresh economic gloom weighed on commodity stocks to drag the market lower.

The owner of Homebase today slashed £542m (€687m) from the value of the struggling DIY chain and warned of the impact of recent financial turmoil on profits.

THE silver jubilee of the Baileys champion cow competition will be celebrated at Virginia Show in Co Cavan tomorrow.

IRISH people may have their DNA samples taken on arrival at British airports if the proposal of a senior British appeal judge is accepted.

Nurses are strongly rejecting claims that they neglected an elderly man suffering from Alzheimer's Disease at a Co Clare nursing home.

A man accused of murdering a woman with a lump hammer after she bit his penis, wrapped her body up in bedclothes and left it outside his flat, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

PROFESSIONAL carers have said a licensing system should be extended nationwide to protect the elderly people they are looking after.

Customers at a restaurant and an hotel visited by a poisoned ex-KGB officer will be tested for the radioactive substance that killed him, health chiefs said today.

Indian police have detained four men for questioning about bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, a top state official said today.

Dozens of small bomb blasts rattled the capital Dhaka and towns across Bangladesh today as a series of carefully timed attacks killed one person and injured at least 42 others.

Britain’s last remaining Guantanamo Bay detainees landed back in the UK today.

Machiavellian, one of Europe’s leading stallions and sire of two Dubai World Cup winners, has been put down at the age of 17.

THE Vice President of Colombia yesterday launched a vigorous defence of his country, where three Irishmen are still being held in prison awaiting a verdict eight months after their trial finished.

Plans to release two former Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry suspects early from prison in England after they were jailed for a racist attack on a black police officer were strongly criticised today.

GREAT Train robber Ronnie Biggs is to get married in prison today, a family spokeswoman said.