Insurance fraud is now punishable with fines of up to €100,000, and/or prison for up to ten years, warns Detective Sergeant Alan Govern of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.

More than half of those suffering from depression stop taking their medicine early heightening risk of a relapse, it was revealed today.

A SUICIDAL mother-of-three leapt to her death from the sixth floor of a tower block within a day of being discharged from a psychiatric hospital, an inquest heard yesterday.