AN INTERNAL Garda review of its investigation into the shooting to death of a Malahide woman found none of the reasons it had previously put forward pointing to her husband as the murderer were credible, the High Court heard yesterday.

A DETECTIVE garda sergeant investigating the gun murder of a tax inspector’s wife deliberately misled other gardaí, it was claimed in a High Court case yesterday.

A RETIRED senior tax inspector began an action against the state yesterday claiming he was wrongfully investigated by gardaí who had an “irrational fixation” he murdered his wife.

An action for damages brought by a former tax inspector and his children against the State arising from the conduct of the garda investigation into the still unsolved murder of his wife in 1992 may take eight weeks, the High Court heard yesterday.

The grandfather of the baby girl who died after her expectant mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital has called on Health Minister Micheál Martin to resign in light of the current budget crisis in Irish hospitals.