A young senior counsel, Conor Dignam, has been given the most important legal assignment of his career — representing the baby whose heart continues to beat in the brain-dead body of its mother in a country hospital.

Another sad case in the hospitals has shown up a lack of legislative action. Again. Dr Adam McAuley reports

Taking the lead on the fourth stage, British duo Paul Bird/Aled Davies (Ford Focus WRC) won the Dunboyne- based Triton Showers ALMC Rally.

The Government is under pressure to legislate for surrogacy following a High Court ruling that shatters traditional interpretations of who is legally a mother.

IRISH laws relating to assisted suicide must be reviewed to make provision for a small minority of people in such physical distress they wish to end their lives, a human rights medical expert has warned.