A schoolteacher has told a judge she almost doubled the mortgage on her home and gave her father €240,000 for a building site he never transferred into her name or that of her husband.

IT is reported that births outside of marriage are increasing and it’s widely believed that marriage is now a big “no” for women today, but, why do most commentators feel free to suggest that this is the sole responsibility of the woman?

JUDGE O’Hagan’s instructions to the jury in respect of the status of a young garda who was killed on duty in Donegal is the cause of much discussion and rightly so.

POSTERS for a controversial play about the Irish Famine have been branded as “blasphemous and an insult to the Irish people”.