Theresa May faced claims that the British Government offered a "sweetheart deal" to a Tory-led council in order to scrap an embarrassing 15% tax hike.

Ireland’s foreign adoption system that permits so-called ‘development aid’ be paid by prospective parents to authorities in a child’s country of origin was slated yesterday by an international consultant on child protection policy who contrasted that approach with Swedish law that absolutely prohibits it.

Philomena Lee will be among the speakers at a two-day international conference in UCC next month.

A lorry driver has died and more than 130,000 homes have been left without power as gale force winds battered Scotland.