Disgraced Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning has pleaded guilty to 21 historical child sex offences as part of a police investigation into a youth disco.

Businessman Denis O’Brien’s action against a Dáil committee over speeches made in the House concerning his banking affairs has been fixed for hearing in November.

Ireland has one of the highest rates of coeliac disease in Europe — yet 42% of people are misdiagnosed before doctors realise patients are suffering from the auto-immune illness.

WHEN, in 1980, the late Lord Denning made his infamous “an appalling vista” remark, about the integrity of the convictions of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, his great concern, later confirmed, was that a trusted, essential arm of the state — Britain’s Midlands Police — had lied to secure those dishonest convictions.

Former minister for justice Alan Shatter is not proceeding with his claim of a "reasonable apprehension of bias" on the part of barrister Sean Guerin in preparing his report concerning Mr Shatter’s handling of complaints by Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe.

When many of today’s coeliacs were diagnosed there was very little gluten-free food. Today there are far more options and coping mechanisms, says Áilín Quinlan

The high cost and low availability of gluten-free food is impacting the health and well-being of Ireland’s coeliac community, according to the Coeliac Society.

THE sound of feet on the street is reassuring, particularly at a time when democracy is blowing in the wind like a fragile flower.

A YOUNG Dublin woman has made medical history after a double world-first operation to cure her lung condition.

JUSTICE was done in the Saville report, but it’s most disturbing that two of the most prominent figures in the British judiciary, Denning and Widgery, have been proven so wrong in their findings and that such “appalling vistas” are possible within the justice system in Britain.

Police in Jersey are to investigate claims that a man was abused in three children’s homes in the Channel Islands, including the notorious “house of horrors” Haut de la Garenne.

COMMANDING a budget of €20 million for some of Africa’s poorest citizens is no easy task.

VINCENT BROWNE was utterly indignant on his programme on Tuesday night as he launched into the Irish Times over the column in which Kevin Myers used the term “bastards” in an offensive and distinctly insensitive way.

Mobile information services provider iTouch, in which Independent News & Media (INM) has a controlling stake, has appointed Roland Denning as a non-executive director of the company.

The Super Race Sunday at Mondello Park featured the three top racing classes Formula Ireland, Dunlop Super Cars and Fiat Punto Abarths with each category having a Sprint race and a Feature race.