Two school patrons have breached Department of Education limits on spending on promotional materials when seeking parents’ backing to open new schools.

"As a family we have grieved so much for Asha. Our daughter Angel still talks about her. The pain of losing her will never leave us."

Fair Deal, the State’s nursing home support scheme, has become the Achilles heel of the acute hospital system, according to HSE director general Tony O’Brien.

An investigation into the deaths of a number of babies at a Galway hospital is now being widened.

TV3 has consented to the making of a court order restraining it from rebroadcasting archive material it holds of two sisters leaving a court where a nephew was tried and convicted of murder and drugs charges.