A novel treatment for heart failure — one of nine drugs caught up in a dispute over funding earlier this year — is available from today to Irish patients under the State’s reimbursement scheme.

A Laois man has been jailed for life for murdering his ex-girlfriend in Carlow almost two years ago.

The Irish Football Association is backing a campaign to reduce violence against women.

Nearly 400 rapes were reported in the North this year, it was revealed today.