THE funeral will take place today of the founder of Threshold, the country’s main non-profit housing advisory organisation.

LAWYERS for the State will present opposing arguments in the High Court today on the right of a pregnant teenager in the care of the Health Service Executive (HSE) to travel to Britain for an abortion.

TWO mothers. Between them they have three children with special needs; two in wheelchairs, one tube-fed - all desperately dependent on their doctor who is about to depart.