The Labour Court has overturned a €19,000 unfair dismissal award made to a Dunnes Stores checkout worker who was dismissed after being absent from work for nearly three years.

A 25-year-old mother of one who had been married just four months has passed away from a rare tongue cancer.

IN the article ‘Bad stars fuel teenage drink abuse’ (Irish Examiner, October 15) Larry Ryan of Behaviour and Attitudes, the market research company, is quoted as saying, “kids regard alcohol as being massively central to popular culture”.