The burden of responsibility on midwives when assisting at home births is too great for them to be on their own, a coroner has said.

A couple who prepared for what they hoped would be an idyllic home birth experienced a nightmare instead, an inquest has heard.

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A neighbour of a man charged with firearms offences has said he saw the accused in Ballyfermot on New Year’s Eve 1999, the same night that shots were heard near the Grand Canal in Co Kildare where two bodies were later recovered.