A woman who was sexually assaulted at the age of five or six was so afraid that somebody at her wedding would recognise some sign of her being an abuse victim that she took anti-depressants just to get through the day.

Up to 160 jobs are at risk at a US pharmaceutical firm which is to close one of its factories in Dublin by the end of 2015.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has said the 785 workers axed from Pfizer will be given every possible support by state agencies.

AN inquiry is being carried out into how a 32-year-old woman, who cares full time for her wheelchair-bound mother, was locked up in a garda cell for the night.