Senior health service officials have been ordered to identify and inform within the next 48 hours the 206 women who were wrongly told they did not have cervical cancer, amid fears over the fallout from the scandal.

Previously unseen poems, slogans, and autographs of Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith, and Countess Markievicz capture the swarm of republican activity in Clare to kickstart Éamon de Valera’s political career 100 years ago.

Fiann O’Nuallain sings the praises of the trumpet-shaped lily which has long been an inspiration to artists as well as having deep symbolical connections for Irish nationalism and other countries striving for independence.

Supporters of a man who stood on a table and shouted in a courtroom at Cork Circuit Court were warned they would be jailed for contempt of court if they tried to film the case against him at Cork District Court yesterday.

New York mayor Bill de Blasio said it was “disrespectful” for some city police officers to turn their backs to him during two funerals for dead police officers.

New York City’s police commissioner called for a “lot less rhetoric and a lot more dialogue” to defuse the tension between officers and the population they protect.

Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was being held for a policeman killed along with his partner in an ambush shooting turned their backs on New York’s mayor as he spoke during the service.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio called for a temporary halt to protests over police conduct as he faced a widening rift with a force preparing Christmas time burials for two of its own and decrying the demonstrations as a factor in the officers’ cold-blooded executions.

As a festival celebrating Cuban culture kicks off in Kilkee, Richard Fitzpatrick talks to artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the iconic image of Che Guevara, about his meeting with the revolutionary

An integration project says their programme for released inmates costs 70 times less than keeping them detained in prisons.

Eight people investigated in connection with the murder of a journalist in the North more than a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about a key witness's evidence, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said today.

Buyers from the UK and from Donegal to Waterford were bidding for the many five star bulls on offer at Tullamore in the Hereford Society’s Premier Bull Sale.

A CATTLE drover who suffered a severe kick to the groin from a Limousin bullock at a cattle mart resulting in significant trauma and injuries is entitled to damages against his employer, Cavan Co-op Mart.

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WATERFORD will reflect ruefully on a Munster junior football championship semi-final they all but gifted to Limerick at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

A Co Kildare man never spoke to his father after he discovered that 5.5 acres of farmland that he claims he was promised was to be put up for sale, the High Court heard today.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal against the three year jail sentence imposed on a Lithuanian man who struck a pedestrian, who had both legs amputated as a result of the injuries he sustained, while driving a van in a dangerous manner.

Officers acted “within guidelines” when they killed an unarmed mentally ill teenager in a hail of 20 bullets, the New York police chief said today.

COMMUNIST Cuba paid tribute yesterday to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Bolivia.

COMMUNIST Cuba paid tribute yesterday to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Bolivia.

TWO companies owned by Meath-based businessman Patrick Kerrigan have paid out almost €4 million to the Revenue Commissioners in unpaid taxes and penalties.

A lab technician who dressed as a female elf to steal lingerie at knifepoint was jailed for two years today.

A Cork man pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his brother after stabbing him six times in the chest and leg during a row at their family home.

The father of a Cork man accused of stabbing his brother said the accused had a mad glare in his eye at the time of the killing and it seemed like he was on "something heavy".

A MAN will stand trial next month accused of murdering his brother at the family home in Cork last year, an inquest was told yesterday.

De La Salle, Macroom 1-12 St Flannan’s 1-4

DOUBLE delight for De La Salle, Macroom at Dunmanway yesterday.

Guidelines that aim to help combat discrimination in the health service were launched today by the Tánaiste and Minister for Health, Mary Harney.

Police officers in New York shocked by the lack of protection for gardaí are offering to send over their spare anti-stab vests.

Abbeyside 3-9 Mount Sion 2-11

Kildangan (Tipperary) 2-13 Carrickshock (Kilkenny) 1-13

SENIOR players Seanie Buckley, Pat Ahern and Johnny McCarthy are included in the Limerick team to play Waterford in the Munster U21 FC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday.

A forum focusing on European issues was tonight told that they must first focus on a united Ireland before contemplating a united Europe.

A former health board chief and a solicitor were among six Northern Ireland judicial appointments today.

Abbeyside 2-10 De La Salle 0-11

TEAM USA’s Rachel Lynch celebrated her father’s retirement as Chief of Police in Wisconsin

US fire and police union officials have expressed concerns that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s appearance at a screening of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new film might suggest it has links with a September 11 charity.