Ann O’Loughlin looks back on the high-profile and occasionally controversial career of the late Justice Paul Carney

A debut novel by Irish Examiner reporter Ann O’Loughlin, based on the forced adoption of Irish children in institutions to US families, has been named among Amazon’s top 20 bestselling ebooks of the year so far.

Irish Examiner journalist Ann O’Loughlin last night launched her debut novel based on the forced adoption of Irish children in institutions to the US.

High court reporter Ann O’Loughlin sees us at our most distressed moments and is particularly passionate about the plight of children put up for forced adoption, a thread in her first novel. She explains all to Sue Leonard.

A one-time showhouse for one section of the large O’Brien and O’Flynn Maryborough Ridge development is for sale now with agents Paul O’Shea and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald: they guide at €375,000 for the four-bed semi-d at No 11 Edgewood.

Court must rule on a woman’s appeal ‘to die with dignity’, writes Ann O’Loughlin