PATIENTS with terminal illnesses have a right not to be told of their impending death with doctors often feeling compelled to relay the full facts even if the individuals in question are not emotionally prepared for the news, a nursing conference at University College Cork (UCC) has heard.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions’ issuing of an apology and explanation in connection with a case file reveals he is prepared to depart from his stated policy of refusing to give reasons for decisions, a high-profile solicitor has claimed.

LATE on the evening of April 11, 1998, Aisling McCarthy, grieving over the sudden death of her mother hours earlier, was told the 47-year-old had been murdered.

THE Director for Public Prosecution was under new pressure last night to re-open the case of a grandmother believed to have been strangled in her sleep five years ago.

Prosecutors in Dublin tonight faced new pressure to reopen the case of a grandmother believed to have been strangled in her sleep five years ago.