The driver of a car that struck a man who later died said he was driving under duress.

LAST week’s BBC Panorama programme about collusion by British security forces with terrorists in the North, a seedy relationship that former police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan suggested was responsible for hundreds of deaths, was another reminder that the terrible events of the past still overshadow the present and colour the future.

There were four house types built at the 33-unit scheme Mitchell’s Court, in Kerry Pike, just a short haul up the shouldering hills of Cork heading towards Blarney — or, towards Kerry, if you were to take the old butter roads.

Gardaí are still awaiting instructions from the DPP in relation to the death of Dean Fitzpatrick, Dublin Coroner’s Court heard.

A youth and a 16-year-old are to stand trial accused of the murder of German student Thomas Heinrich, who died following a stabbing in Dublin in December.

A Red Arrows pilot suffered an “almost loss of consciousness” due to the effects of G-force shortly before he crashed, an inquest heard today.

THE husband of a woman who died following an elective hysterectomy at a private hospital said after an inquest at which a verdict of medical misadventure was recorded that they had “got justice” for his wife.

GARDAÍ and the Health Service Executive (HSE) are investigating the death of an elderly woman who was strangled with a television flex at a large psychiatric hospital.

IT’s the most understated of developments on an estuarine strip at Rochestown in Co Cork, but Ronayne’s Court is secure and mature.

A judge has directed the HSE to attend the Children’s Court case of a troubled boy who needs to be placed in a secure therapeutic care facility.

IT takes a bit of smart thinking to move houses in the present market and builders, Coleman Brothers, are not backwards in thinking forwards.

A troubled 16-year-old boy repeatedly threatened during his Children’s Court case today that he would kill himself if he was remanded in custody.

THE days of the ‘free gaff’ are over — at least for parents who buy into Mitchell’s Court in Kerry Pike, Co Cork.

A 17-year-old girl appeared in court yesterday following her arrest for carrying out a bogus charity collection for disabled and impoverished children.

The Children’s Court today adjourned the case of a 14-year-old boy, who has tried to kill himself three times, pending a High Court legal action to find him a suitable care facility.