Parents should be held liable for their children’s behaviour online, the director of an anti-bullying research centre has said.

A High Court judge yesterday urged the State to step up measures to end sham marriages by people resisting deportation.

Three of the remaining directors of beleaguered suicide bereavement charity Console did not even know they were directors.

South Africa’s World Cup scrum-half Ruan Pienaar will make his 100th appearance for Ulster when they face provincial rivals Leinster at the RDS this evening in an important Guinness PRO12 clash.

A new website is being launched to provide information on mental health support services around Ireland.

Munster coach Rob Penney has resisted the temptation to field his strongest side in response to last week’s second half meltdown at Treviso for this evening’s Rabo Direct clash with the Newport Gwent Dragons.

The National Women's Council of Ireland have said families are being "pushed to the brink" when it comes to household finances.

John Daly’s article entitled ‘What Lies Beneath’ (Forum, Aug 3) is timely in light of the recent publication of the Green Paper on Defence.

The Office of Corporate Enforcement has finished the majority of their investigations into the former Anglo Irish Bank, leading to 60 charges being brought against a number of people in court.

The highest court in Ireland will today rule if a terminally-ill woman can end her life with assistance.

The outsourcing and financialisation of the private sector will have hugely negative implications for Ireland according to a leading expert.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and chief executive Sean FitzPatrick has been returned for trial accused of hiding from the bank’s auditors the true value of multimillion-euro loans.

If there was a choice between putting a child in a 'Romanian-style' orphanage, or placing them for adoption with a gay couple, in that case it would be preferable to allow the child to be adopted.

Taxi drivers who breach regulations could have their licenses suspended or face hefty fines, under new laws to be introduced from January.

Insurer Aviva has been fined almost €500,000 by the Central Bank for breaches of the Consumer Protection Code in relation to the proper handling of customer complaints.

A THIRD investigation file on the Director of Corporate Enforcement Paul Appleby’s investigation into the €30 billion collapse of Anglo Irish Bank has been submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

CONTAMINATED Egyptian fenugreek seeds are probably the source of Europe’s deadly E coli outbreaks, health experts warned, predicting there could be more infections from seeds still in the food chain.

FLAWED analysis and faulty logic on the part of the Government has resulted in poor people being wrongly hit by swingeing budget cuts, according to a social justice organisation.

THE Supreme Court has ruled the auditor of a company used by the late accountant Des Traynor for a “sophisticated and extensive scheme” of tax evasion by Charles Haughey and others must be disqualified or restricted in some way on grounds of unfitness.

CONSUMER confidence plunged last month with experts saying the Government must make clear the extent of pain that is on the way.

THE €169 million loan from Anglo Irish Bank to fund Seán Quinn’s 15% purchase of its shares in 2008, which is the subject of a criminal investigation, was not formally approved by the Financial Regulator.

Eircom today announced the appointment of Andrew Haire as Director of Corporate Affairs.

Representatives of the Irish food and drink industry today met with Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith and called on the Government to take action to avert a crisis among exporters.

AROUND 1,500 people visited GPs last week with suspected swine flu and the number will continue to rise, a senior public health specialist has revealed.

MORE than €120,000 will be wiped from the value of the average Irish house by the time the market bottoms out.

WHEN the first local elections took place in Ireland in 1899, one newspaper ran a front page story reporting “loud laughter” at the announcement that the ballot would give women the right to vote for the first time in this country.

Organised crime suspects will face non-jury trials in a planned extension of anti-terrorism laws, it was announced today.

The decision of the Minister for Finance to reduce the excise on low-strength beer and cider is a vital step in growing the categories, according to Rosemary Garth, Director of the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI).

SONIA O’SULLIVAN jetted home yesterday to launch the Munster leg of the McDonalds Little Athletics programme at The Mardyke Arena in Cork.

A former senior manager with National Irish Bank has been disqualified by the High Court for a period of four years from involvement in the management of a company on grounds of unfitness.

THE High Court has reserved judgement on the application by the Director of Corporate Enforcement, Paul Appleby, for the appointment of an inspector to DCC.

THE debate on the location of breast cancer treatment services is over, Ireland’s cancer chief declared yesterday.

IRELAND’S cancer chief is spending almost €6 million building up the capacity of the State’s eight specialist cancer treatment hospitals.

TWENTY county and city councils have withdrawn from rubbish collection leaving the service entirely to private operators.

THERE is incontrovertible evidence that work and career opportunities strongly influence the way women deal with crisis pregnancies, research reveals.

MORE than 12,000 calls for help from victims of domestic violence went unanswered last year.

UP TO 70 members of the Roma community who had been living in squalor in Dublin on an M50 roundabout, are due to be repatriated to Romania today.

The Labour Party will begin to plan its future today after a disappointing General Election.

The Crisis Pregnancy Agency has said it knows of about 200 women who have travelled to the Netherlands for abortions in the last year.

A RETIRED National Irish Bank regional manager has told the High Court it never crossed his mind to consider, when bogus non-resident accounts were identified as existing within National Irish Bank branches in the 1990s, that DIRT should have been deducted from the accounts and paid to the Revenue Commissioners.

THE publication for guidance on audit’s committees was welcomed yesterday by The Institute of Certified Public Accountants CPA).

More than ten of the country's wealthiest individuals are being targeted by the Director of Corporate Enforcement.

THE Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has confirmed it is seeking to have two of the country’s most controversial property developers barred from being actively involved in the running of their business.

BAD smells from factories and dumps are the primary cause of complaints made by members of the public to the Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement office (OEE).