BRIAN COWEN said his time as Taoiseach had been “a time of great trial and test” as he bid farewell to the Dáil.

I WAS given the book ‘Benedictus’ by the philosopher/poet John O’Donohue for Christmas.

The unborn baby of a Nigerian woman fighting deportation is entitled to a legal declaration that he or she is a person, the High Court was told today.