Problems with unsuitable wheelchairs and maintenance delays are adding to difficulties faced by users in accessing education, work and everyday life, a researcher has said.

A CORK woman has consented to judgment for some €2.6 million against her arising from loans advanced by ACC Bank to her and others.

A DUBLIN man, recovering in hospital yesterday after a seven-hour mountain rescue on the McGillicuddy Reeks in Kerry, owes his life to a mobile phone.

The mother of hill walker Joan O’Leary, who died after a fall while hill-walking in Kerry, revealed today how horrific accidents have robbed her of two children.