The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the extradition of Eric Eoin Marques to the US this week ended a five- and-a-half year battle by the Dubliner to be allowed to face justice at home.

Greta Thunberg was just a child who wouldn’t be comforted.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to filmmaker Nicholas Ryan-Purcell about his new documentary and growing up with Asperger’s syndrome.

The letter is only of many positive responses Hegerty has received for her openness about her diagnosis.

A man with Asperger’s syndrome who assaulted his mother was sentenced to a four-month prison term after efforts to get him into a residential medical facility to deal with his issues were exhausted.

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Nature presenter Chris Packham wants viewers to try and understand what it’s like living with Asperger’s, writes Gemma Dunn

Former singer Nick Kelly has been receiving warm praise for his debut feature The Drummer And The Keeper, a film partly inspired by his own experiences with autism in his family, writes Esther McCarthy

Here Majella O’Sullivan takes a look at some of the most common conditions named after those who discovered them and the people whose names they bear.

The critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time is coming back to Dublin. Ed Power meets the cast. 

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a Wicklow man to the US where he is facing charges for his alleged links to the Silk Road website.

There is a reluctance to complain in Ireland, says Ombudsman Peter Tyndall, but he notes that complaining may bring benefits.

The stage of The Curious Incident could be one of the highlights of the Dublin Theatre Festival, writes Padraic Killeen

Check out our guide to the best shows to watch on the box tonight.

A look at the quirkier side of life as we bring you the most viewed content from the ExamViral section of irishexaminer.com.

Rotted wooden beams are the likely cause of the Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six students, a white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in the US, New Rangers manager - Mark Warburton - has signed former Ireland Under 21 captain Rob Kiernan, and Simon Cowell is being honoured with the 24th Music Industry Trusts Award. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

The New York Times has apologised if a controversial article on the Berkeley balcony tragedy gave the impression that the victims were to blame; Ryanair customers have been warned to check in before an online shutdown; and a Samsung keyboard security flaw could leave you exposed to hackers. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Danielle Jacobs has Asperger’s syndrome and suffers from depressive meltdowns and panic attacks.

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The former trader on trial for allegedly conspiring to rig benchmark interest rates, has admitted to being motivated by greed and was fired by US bank Citigroup in 2010, the prosecution told a London court yesterday.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy who took his own life told his inquest that she would never have agreed to him taking Prozac if she had known the side-effects.

Gunman Elliot Rodger stabbed three people to death at his apartment before going on to shoot three more, it has emerged.

In his first public comments about the 2012 Connecticut school massacre, the father of gunman Adam Lanza said what his son did couldn’t “get any more evil” and he now wishes his son had never been born.

Brian Conaghan

When Fiona Pettit O’Leary was diagnosed with Asperger’s at 42, it suddenly made sense of her troubled childhood and teenage years

Hans Asperger, the erstwhile prominent Viennese paediatrician, could never have envisaged the global phenomenological fervour which enveloped and exponentially developed his collated observations on the perceived ‘psychopathy’ exhibited by some children with apparent communication, social-skillset, peer-empathy and physical adroitness issues.

Singing star Susan Boyle has revealed she has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, after years of believing she had suffered slight brain damage at birth.

Singing star Susan Boyle has revealed she has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, after years of believing she had suffered slight brain damage at birth.

JENNIFER O’TOOLE is well placed to give a talk on social skills for teens and tweens on the autism spectrum.

The Quarry

Dame Helen Mirren and Billie Piper will go head-to-head at this year’s Olivier Awards – while James McAvoy is in the running for Macbeth.

The five-year-old boy held hostage in an underground bunker for six days by a gunman is recovering well from his ordeal, but questions remain about how the siege was brought to an end.

At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, according to various witnesses, but that was only part of his problem.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects have been extradited to the United States.

A 15-year-old Australian boy rode his bike more than 950 kilometres away after disappearing from home.

The title of Asperger’s suffererPip Brown’s new album describes her terror of playing live, says Ed Power

A massive hit never ends at its own conclusion, for better or worse.

A sick father whose wife is recovering from cancer and whose two children are autistic has expressed outrage at a pay rise for a special adviser, which he wrote to Enda Kenny about but got no reply.

Published in 2005, Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' revisited the 9/11 attacks through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy.

My son was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in June 2010.

I have never written to a newspaper before but Mr Humphreys’ article on February 3 entitled ”Core connection” was so horrendously insulting and hurtful that I feel compelled to respond.

Snow Friends by M Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton (Little Tiger; €9.50).