A woman from Blanchardstown has appealed for the return of her late mother’s jewellery after it was stolen from her father’s home last night.

In the end, no amount of red tape could withstand the outrage on the national airwaves, and the threat of separating an elderly couple after 63 years of marriage evaporated.

Gardaí are considering if concerns raised in relation to suicide prevention charity Console merit a criminal investigation.

The victims of a Waterford-based paedophile who was yesterday jailed for 14 years and two months have urged anyone else who suffered abuse to come forward and tell their story.

The government ignore everything except the latest crisis and then reach for a quick-fix solution, writes Michael Clifford

The Government created a democratic vacuum and can hardly ascend to the heights of righteous indignation when others take advantage, writes Michael Clifford

A hotel in Dublin yesterday apologised to Garth Brooks fans for getting their hopes up.

Two years ago a report was published which denied that 198 children had died ‘unnatural’ deaths while in the sole care of the State. Some social workers believed the number to be far greater.

RTÉ Radio’s Liveline has been severely criticised by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland for the way it covered the termination of a patient advocate’s contract.

Michael Clifford on the demise of Custom House Capital and the missing €56 million

A DOCTOR has been found guilty of professional misconduct and poor professional performance by a Medical Council fitness to practise committee over the care he gave to a woman who underwent a gastric banding procedure in Hungary.

OVERWHELMING public support was expressed on the internet and airwaves for 41-year-old Joe McNamara, who was charged last night over an incident in which a 15-tonne cement mixing truck was parked outside the gates of Dáil Éireann as a protest against the bailing out of Anglo Irish Bank.

A CONSULTANT anaesthetist, who has left several gastric band patients in the lurch after he closed his clinic without anynotice, has been suspended by his new employers at Ennis General Hospital.

THERE’S no smoke without ire, it seems.

THERE have been some question marks in recent days over Enda Kenny’s ability to lead Fine Gael into Government.

More than 2,000 mobile phones were found smuggled into the State’s prisons last year, it was revealed today.

WHY are people like me, a pensioner who has had both hips replaced in the past two years, prisoners in our own homes?

A TRAVEL operator is still hoping against hope that the state’s aviation regulator will let him fly hundreds of children and their parents to Lapland to meet Santa Claus this month.

HAS Enda Kenny finally lost patience waiting for his turn?

A WOMAN with cystic fibrosis (CF) was asked to pose for a photograph 10 years ago at a site earmarked for new treatment facilities which have yet to be developed.

SUSIE LONG died from colon cancer.

BEVERLY FLYNN’S father, “Pee” Flynn, was never a politician given to understatement.

PIZZA chips are the latest idea from snack food manufacturers Tayto Hunky Dorys.

THE national broadcaster has been cleared of wrongly suggesting the people of Tallaght are more inclined to be sex tourists.

A FIREFIGHTER has described some of the horrific scenes he and colleagues witnessed in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s mayhem in Dublin.

SOLICITORS could be forced to hand back money to thousands of clients who may have been overcharged following personal injury and other cases in the last 10 years.

THE Mater Misericordiae University Hospital has established a dedicated phone line to take calls from listeners of RTÉ Radio 1’s Liveline programme who have made offers to enhance the capacity of the Mater’s A&E department.

Angry nurses branded a Dublin hospital a disgrace today after it turned down an offer from the public of temporary accommodation to help ease the overcrowding crisis.

AN offer by Ben Dunne and several businessmen to buy portakabins and equipment for overcrowded A&Es has been turned down by the Health Service Executive (HSE) on health and safety grounds.

The Health Service Executive today defended the progress of a €70m package to reduce pressure on Accident & Emergency units.

THE former prison governor who indecently assaulted a young girl 28 times showed no remorse, his victim claimed yesterday.

A RECENT Prime Time survey on the Church threw up an interesting but largely unreported statistic: compared to 90% of people who saw the role of doctors as very important, only 22% of people gave this rating to politicians, and journalists got a mere 20%.

PHARMACISTS have been instructed to warn patients taking the anti-depressant Seroxat that the information leaflet accompanying the drug omits a reference to self-harm and suicide.