THE work colleagues and the family of a man left severely brain damaged by a shooting two years ago yesterday called for the withdrawal from sale of a book by a person recently arrested in relation to the incident.

The father of a man left severely brain damaged by a shooting two years ago said today his family was living a nightmare.

THERE was a numbed silence across a Donegal peninsula yesterday evening as hearse after hearse made the journey from Letterkenny General Hospital to Fahan, Buncrana, Clonmany and Ballyliffen and families prepared for the first of eight funerals today.

EATING lots of broccoli helped 10-year-old Sean McSharry become Europe’s youngest person to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

A LEADING senior counsel is to examine files on Baby Noleen, the child found stabbed to death in a laneway 34 years ago, and decide whether any action is required in the case.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell today revealed he has demanded a full report from An Garda Síochána into its handling of the investigation into the death of a baby girl found stabbed to death in Dun Laoghaire in 1973.

The allegations of abuse and claims of a sordid incest ring have ripped apart the Murphy family.

The jury at the Dun Laoghaire baby inquest has found that the infant girl, found in a plastic bag in a laneway over thirty years ago, was Noleen Murphy, the daughter of Cynthia Owen.

For more than 30 years the murder of the new-born baby girl found dumped in an alleyway has been shrouded in mystery.

A man accused of raping two of his sisters in an alleged incest ring today denied any of the abuse ever happened.

An inquest into the death of a baby girl found covered in blood in a Dublin lane more than 30 years ago is due to hear evidence from dozens of witnesses when it begins today.

A woman claiming to be the mother of a baby girl discovered stabbed to death over 30 years ago today criticised the Gardaí after the inquest was further delayed.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell insisted yesterday that exhuming the body of a baby girl from a communal grave in Dublin 33 years after her death would have had huge implications for other parents.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell insisted today that exhuming the body of a baby girl from a communal grave in Dublin 33 years after her death would have created huge implications for other parents.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has been asked to sign an order to allow for the exhumation of the body of a baby girl who was found stabbed to death in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire over 30 years ago.

SOLICITORS for the woman at the centre of a dramatic dig for a dead baby yesterday said that the State owed her an explanation for how it dealt with her case.

FOR a half-wit racegoer like me, it was an exhilarating moment in sport. Granted permission to stand on the track for the first race at Cheltenham, I was close enough to the underbelly of a horse to appreciate why the majority are gelded as they thunder at 40 miles an hour over spiky bundles of birch.

A couple, who hid oil paintings worth over €18m stolen from Russborough House in the attic of their Clondalkin home, have been jailed, one for six months and one for a year.

A JUDGE has refused eight men and two women bail after a man was kicked to death in Co Wexford last year, saying: “You wouldn’t do this to a dog.”

A 22 year-old Carlow man told gardai that he struck out at a teenage father-of-one, stabbing him repeatedly because the younger man had "tried to rape" his mother.

Underlying resentment over allegations of sexual assault had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town, a murder trial jury were told today.

Underlying tension and resentment between two men had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town a murder trial jury were told today.

WINNING at the Galway Races demands fine attention to detail and a bit of luck, especially when the course is filled with potential champions.

The anxious mother of a man missing near war-torn Afghanistan was tonight praying he will turn up safe.