Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan has told the Disclosures Tribunal that his use of the word “disgusting” before a public accounts committee hearing was “isolated and misconstrued” in media reports.

Apart from rare cases, there should be no ‘crisis pregnancies’ in a country as rich as ours, writes Victoria White.

The Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, has expressed serious concerns about the mishandling by State agencies of the case of an 11-year-old girl who was subjected to repeated rape, sometimes at knife-point.

LAST week there was trouble outside the Nigerian embassy in Dublin as people protested over difficulties in securing passports for which they have been grossly overcharged. Up to 70 people were protesting outside the embassy at Leeson Park.