A young woman sexually assaulted by her stepfather wanted him named publicly yesterday so that he would not do the same thing to someone else in the future.

The husband of a woman who died after choking is seeking an investigation into a 20-minute wait for an ambulance to come to her.

The drugs companies behind two new cancer treatments deemed too expensive for use in Ireland have been told to lower their prices if they want their product prescribed.

A doctor has told an inquest into the death of a young boy that there was a delay in starting dialysis at a hospital as the boy’s father had not brought the dialysis machine with him.

An Irish man who was injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Cambodia last month is being flown home by the Air Corps today.

WILLIE Mullins ended 2007 on a high when, in addition to winning with O’Hana at Tramore, he saddled Snowy Morning and C’est Ca to triumph at Punchestown yesterday.

The funeral of Christopher Crowley, the maths teacher who last week shot his six-year-old daughter before turning his gun on himself, was held in Cork today.