A judge said that it was nothing short of reprehensible that a 22-year-old woman posted on Facebook details of a physical assault she suffered at the hands of her father.

A judge has refused a safety order to a husband who locks himself into his own bedroom at night out of fear of his wife.

A Cork community is trying to comfort the family of a young woman whose life was tragically cut short when she drowned in West Cork on Tuesday night.

Businesses and householders in a Co Cork town are pleading with the authorities to carry out interim flood prevention works before a major scheme is put in place.

Gardaí at Graiguenamanagh in Co Kilkenny have appealed for help in tracing a 15-year-old girl missing from her home for the past week.

An appeal brought by a Clare man against his conviction for the murder of his former girlfriend in the grounds of a church was dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

A man will face charges tomorrow in connection with the death of a 23-year-old girl in west Clare.

The 23-year-old man being questioned about the murder of a young woman in Clare was in a relationship with her, it emerged today.

Eoin English

I REFER to the articles on frozen imported lamb being sold as fresh (Examiner Farming, June 19) and the reply from the Food Safety Authority (June 26) stating there is nothing illegal about selling thawed lamb as fresh, but the consumer should be made aware if the lamb had been thawed out in “a properly operating commercial condition.”

I REFER to the article entitled ‘Frozen imported lamb being sold as fresh to the consumer’ (Irish Examiner Farming, June 19).

ANN Walsh wept as she described to the Barr Tribunal yesterday how she learned on the evening TV news her first cousin and godson John Carthy had been shot in the Abbeylara siege.

MANY parents whose children were given an ineffective vaccination against TB are seriously concerned their children may have been put at risk.