A 20-year-old Cork man who has cerebral palsy yesterday settled for €1.1m in a High Court action over his care at the time before his birth at Erinville Hospital, Cork.

Cork teenager Joanne O’Riordan, who celebrates her 18th birthday today, was almost dizzy with excitement when she met President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday.

A garda whistleblower today urged an overhaul of laws brought in just months ago to help officers expose rogue colleagues.

Donegal publican Frank McBrearty Senior asked a former employee to say she typed a letter containing serious allegations against senior gardai, the Morris Tribunal heard today.