The minister with responsibility for mental health will meet a delegation concerned about serious side-effects of anti-depressants.

When it comes to cocaine, crystal meth or LSD, there is no difficulty believing a drug could drive a person to commit a crime.

A former assistant state pathologist has expressed serious concern about the growing link between anti-depressants and suicide.

When an autopsy expert with 30 years of experience suspects a possible link between suicide and the use of powerful anti-depressant drugs, it becomes a matter of the utmost concern and one that warrants immediate investigation.

The skull fracture sustained by a retired Cork barman was most likely to have been caused by someone standing on his head, a pathologist told a murder trial today.

CO Wexford father Diarmuid Flood who last April killed his wife and children before setting fire to their home and shooting himself in the head and was “very disturbed” and was not in his “normal senses”, the inquest into the deaths of the Flood family from Clonroche heard yesterday.

A retired barman found dead in his own home may have been murdered for a flat screen television, it emerged today.

GARDAÍ are awaiting the results of a post mortem examination on the body of a man in his early 60s found with a serious head injury at a house in Cork city.

THE Wexford village of Clonroche came to a standstill this weekend as for the second time in 12 months a local family died by murder-suicide.

A doorman of a public house was gunned down by a pillion passenger on a motorcycle on a busy Dublin street, an inquest heard today.

Gardaí are continuing to investigate the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old mother at a birthday party in Dublin’s Coolock, a coroner’s court heard today.

A judge at the Central Criminal Court has said he will now have to read a written victim impact statement from the family of a Dublin man who was stabbed to death, before deciding whether to reject all or part of it.

A 37-year-old Dublin man, described by his own barrister as "a rough diamond", has been cleared of murdering the man he was being paid to protect.

A Dublin murder trial has heard that the deceased died as a result of "laceration of the brain and inter-cranial haemorrhage due to a gunshot wound".

A TEENAGE mother-of-one whose naked body was discovered at a derelict house in Co Kildare, died after consuming drugs, an inquest heard yesterday.

UP to 60 people who were in a pub when father-of-nine Thomas Canavan was gunned down, know his murderer, his mother claimed last night.

The course of the fatal bullet through a murder victim’s head was confirmed at a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court today.

The body of a man pulled from the water of Lough Ree in Co Roscommon has been identified as Swiss national, Walter Borner, gardaí confirmed tonight.

THE 18-month delay in making the appointment of a second state pathologist was last night described as “leaving Ireland very dangerously exposed”.

GARDAÍ in Roscommon are baffled over the reason why a local farmer shot his wife dead before committing suicide on Sunday evening.