The depths of Irish motherhood was underlined at the opening of an inquest into the death of a 29-year-old woman who died after she gave birth to her first baby in Sligo.

An inquest has heard of the desperate attempts to keep a teenage girl in the protective care of the HSE shortly before she was killed.

A husband has demanded an inquest into the death of his wife who lost her life after giving birth to their first child.

A MELBOURNE underworld matriarch appeared in court accused of the execution-style murder of her brother-in-law in a case police described as too far fetched for television.