Being a resident of Dublin, I am writing to offer my views on the proposed changes to the city-centre traffic flow.

An 18-year-old man who claims he suffered brain damage at birth and in his treatment afterwards at Sligo General Hospital has settled his High Court action for €1.75m.

That is how a lawyer described to the High Court the injuries suffered by Matthew McGrath when he was only 17 months old.

At 32, Irish Examiner journalist Conall Ó Fátharta decided to grab life by the steering wheel and learn to drive. Four lessons in, just how far down the road is he?

At 32, Irish Examiner journalist Conall Ó Fátharta decided to grab life by the steering wheel and learn to drive. Eight weeks on, just how far down the road is he?

Clutch, pause, engage... Iron Man Conall Ó Fátharta shows the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, his steely side, as he takes to the road for his first driving lesson

A seven-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy after her mother suffered from pre-enclampsia symptoms but was not referred to hospital, has settled her High Court action with a €1.45 million interim payment.

The HSE has agreed to pay €790,000 and “unreservedly” apologised to the family of a 29-year-old Indian woman who became seriously ill in Sligo Regional Hospital at the time of the birth of her first child, but died eight days later.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost one million euro in damages from health chiefs.

WHEN bereaved parents in this country found out that tissues and organs from their dead children had been retained by hospitals, they were outraged.

MICHEÁL MARTIN is forging a new way forward for his party, but embers of old still burn from a few short years ago when he and others rushed forward to attack the Mahon Tribunal for its enquiries into Bertie Ahern’s mysterious £215,000.

LAURA MCINERNEY from Co Limerick, who suffered a brain haemorrhage just weeks after starting college, was one of 10 stroke survivors whose courage was celebrated yesterday.

THE emerging crisis in funding for nursing home care, which Health Minister Dr James Reilly said he learned of just last week, was flagged by Department of Health officials in an April briefing document prepared for him.

IRELAND’S elderly population needs to fight plans to extend the retirement age unless concerns over ageism and training for older people in the workplace are addressed, according to a new report.

THE Irish tribunal system has been described as the “greatest gravy train in Irish history” after it was revealed that two individual barristers were paid over €8.5 million each out of a total €85m paid over to lawyers.

THE Government has been accused of dragging its heels in implementing measures to protect vulnerable older people from abuse.

THE final report into the Leas Cross nursing home scandal has been delayed for the third time in less than a year due to the “complexity and volume” of the cases involved.

Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly says the blade may be about to fall on Ahern.

BERTIE AHERN lodged £30,000 cash into his bank account a month after meeting property developer Owen O’Callaghan, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

An emotional Bertie Ahern today officially ended his evidence to the Mahon Tribunal with a parting accusation that its lawyers tried to ’trap and trick’ him.

Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly asks is Hurricane Bertie in danger of blowing out.

AN Australia-based businessman has admitted surprise that Bertie Ahern repaid him money 13 years after he had contributed £2,500 to a “dig-out” for the former Taoiseach in the mid-1990s.

THE tribunal was back as the most popular show in Dublin this week. But this time it was not as a drama but as pure farce.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was not impoverished, but not wealthy, when he was given a sum of £16,500 by a group of businessmen in 1994 despite already having savings of up to £70,000.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he won £8,000 gambling on horses in 1996 and lodged the sterling sum into the bank account of his daughters, Cecelia and Georgina.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern angrily rejected a suggestion that he was wrong to claim last May that the Mahon tribunal had not given him information about sterling lodgments that could have saved his former secretary, Gráinne Carruth, from returning to give evidence.

BERTIE AHERN either has a very lucky touch with the gee-gees or his tribunal evidence is made up of the stuff horses leave behind them on the ground.

A FIANNA Fáil fundraiser has told the Mahon Tribunal that he cannot remember the identity of up to 30 people who agreed to fund the purchase of Bertie Ahern’s constituency office in 1987.

EVERYONE, it seems, is dampening expectations — even the opposition.

IRISH politicians won’t thank Eddie O’Sullivan for making resignations fashionable as Bertie Ahern’s tribunal troubles took another turn for the worse this week.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern would have given her oral instructions when he gave her money to lodge on his behalf, his former constituency secretary Gráinne Carruth told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

SO, ANOTHER strand of the Taoiseach’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal is in conflict with the recollections of those who are in a position to substantiate his story.

IT WASN’T the most auspicious fresh start for a future taoiseach.

I’M sure I am not the only person who found some of the coverage of the Mahon Tribunal excessive.

NUMEROUS lodgments were made to a second Irish Permanent Building Society [IPBS] account opened by one of the Taoiseach’s closest associates.

LODGMENTS up to three times greater than his salary were discovered in Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s personal deposit account with a building society during the early 1990s, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

BERTIE AHERN revealed just “four rafts” under his St Luke’s HQ are keeping it from collapsing into the river — he didn’t need to mention the single life-raft keeping his political career afloat is also sinking fast.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern claimed at the Mahon Tribunal today that a mystery payment into his bank account in the 1990s may have been inheritance money from his late father but he has no record of it.

BERTIE Ahern’s purchase of his Drumcondra home was at the centre of fresh controversy last night as questions were raised whether files given to the Mahon corruption probe had been altered.

BERTIE Ahern was “taken care of” and “looked after” by a businessman seeking special tax designation for one of his projects, the Mahon Tribunal was told yesterday.

SEVERAL times before yesterday, the Taoiseach stressed his intention to co-operate with the tribunal. As recently as January 28, he told reporters: “It’s my job to co-operate with them and I’ll do that.”

NORMAN TURNER shot to prominence in December last year when the former chairman of the National Lottery, John Hynes, directly linked Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to the promotion of a casino in the Phoenix Park.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is unlikely to face further questions into his personal finances at the Mahon Tribunal until February at the earliest.