The jury will begin deliberating today in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a 10-month-old baby. Registered child-minder Sandra Higgins, aged 34, is alleged to have caused the injuries to the baby girl she was minding at her home.

A UK neuropathologist has told the trial of a child-minder charged with assaulting a baby that shaken baby syndrome has no scientific validation.

A consultant paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby that some of the baby’s injuries represented a “classic textbook case” of baby shaking.

Expert tells childminder’s trial brain injury could not reasonably have occurred before day of minding

A paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder accused of shaking a 10-month-old baby girl that it is not credible to conclude the infant's injuries were accidental.

A childminder on trial for assaulting a 10-month-old baby told gardaí the baby was not shaken in her care.

The jury has been shown photographs of bruises on the face and body of a 10-month-old baby who was allegedly violently shaken by her childminder.

A registered childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old girl.

A professional childminder has gone on trial accused of violently shaking a ten month old baby girl.

A 32-year-old mother of two appeared at Cavan District Court yesterday on charges of intentionally or recklessly causing harm to a 10-month-old girl on Mar 28 last year.

A Cavan childminder has been charged in connection with an assault on a baby.

EVEN though we may momentarily flirt with the idea of having something new and exotic for Christmas dinner, in the end everyone seems to crave the traditional favourites with all the trimmings, so which will it be, turkey or goose?