A judge has asked immigration authorities to do all in their power to ensure a 20-year-old mother receives daily visits in Mountjoy Prison over Christmas from her two-year-old child.

JUDGE Patrick McCartan described the fraud as “a clever scheme of deceit”.

A consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud broke down in tears at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as he described the day he said his wife discovered a lump in her left breast.

A Donegal publican told a former garda sergeant he was trained to kill a man with his bare hands, it was claimed today.

A Donegal publican who won almost €4.5m in damages can afford legal representation at a tribunal probing allegations of garda corruption, it was claimed today.

DONEGAL publican Frank McBrearty Snr will not have to prove his business suffered a downturn in trade during an alleged campaign of Garda harassment, it was ruled yesterday.

SURVIVORS and families of the victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings have called on An Garda Síochána to issue a full apology over its appalling handling of the investigation into the single biggest atrocity committed during the Troubles.

Michael O’Farrell, Political Reporter

FORMER Taoiseach Dr Garret FitzGerald said he does not recall details of any Cabinet conversations about the Dublin/Monaghan bombings in the months following the atrocity.

The Oireachtas sub-committee hearing into the findings of the Barron Report was yesterday dismissed as another delaying exercise that would achieve absolutely nothing for justice.

A DECEASED Fine Gael councillor demanded £250,000 for his support of a major property development in Dublin in the early 1990s.