The organisers of an Arts festival designed to get the public talking about mental health have released hundreds of smiley faced discs into the Dublin sky.

A consultant at the Mater Hospital in Dublin is warning that any future HSE budget cuts will result in cuts to services.

A man who pulled a computer wire around his former wife’s neck as she pleaded with him not to kill her has been given an three-and-a-half year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.