Emergency medical abortion has embedded well in the community and the typical woman seeking the service has a family that is complete.

The option of contracting commercial scanning clinics to provide an ultrasound service to women seeking an abortion, under proposed new legislation, is being considered.

Prior to legislation, the Government must take time for research and consultation on contraception and abortion services, says Claire McCarthy IT is more than three weeks since

Irish families are spending more money on junk food such as crisps, chocolate and sweets than they do on fruit and vegetables.

Rachel Marie Walsh gets to grips with hand creams, wipes the day away with cleansing wipes, and nourishes with moisturisers.

The running sore of mortgage arrears — eight years after the onset of the financial crisis — is back on top of the political agenda as Independent TDs negotiate their participation in a new government, the Irish Examiner has learned.

More than €670m worth of Irish mortgages are to be sold to a US-based private equity firm for an undisclosed sum.

A family with two children in childcare face paying out €16,500 a year — a cost that may stop people from taking up employment, according to a report.

The leader of the Green Party has said people living in a family home who cannot afford to pay their mortgage should not be evicted from that house.

A man whose family is facing eviction said he hopes their decision to go public will give thousands of other families in mortgage arrears the strength to take a stand.

A FARMER was accused of playing ducks and drakes with the courts after it emerged he had failed to remove cattle from land due for repossession for four years.

THE Dublin High Court yesterday saw its highest number of house repossessions granted so far this year with lenders taking ownership of 14 properties.

A woman who cares for her ill and elderly mother has secured a temporary High Court order preventing a mortgage lender from evicting them from their family home.

A LEGAL challenge to the entitlement of Start Mortgages Ltd to issue mortgages here has major implications for Start’s €1 billion housing loans and for the legal position of other lenders, the Central Bank has told the Commercial Court.

AN unemployed construction worker has brought a High Court challenge aimed at stopping a mortgage provider from taking possession of what has been his family’s home for more than three centuries.

A challenge to Start Mortgages lending practices has been given the go ahead by the High Court.

A RECORD number of repossession cases were listed in the High Court yesterday where some eight family homes were given over to banks and lenders.

Investec has said that it will look at the implications of owning two specialist mortgage providers in the Irish market in the coming weeks.

Derry City will face Scottish First Division outfit Gretna in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup while Drogheda United must face Start of Norway.

Derry City have been drawn against Swedish side IFK Gothenburg in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.

Thomas Sorensen is Peter Reid’s £10million man, a tried and true presence behind an often questionable defence at Sunderland.