A terrified schoolgirl thought she was going to be raped after she was forced into a car and driven away at speed, Dublin Children’s Court was told yesterday.

THE dangers that can arise if children are given unbridled access to go online may be well known, but the risk of 10-year-olds unwittingly engaging in cyber-bullying is not so apparent.

LESS than two weeks after Longford man John Carthy was shot dead following the Abbeylara siege, work began to demolish the house he shared with his mother, the Barr Tribunal heard yesterday.