A pharmacist who refused to dispense an EpiPen adrenalin injector without prescription to the mother of a teenager who later died from an allergic reaction told an inquest the “dynamic” would have been different if he had known it was for her daughter.

A gay couple have accused a driver of an Uber Cab in London of throwing them out because they were kissing.

A convicted murderer who went on the run after being let out of a high-security prison in the North is back in custody, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has said.

Judi Costello had to battle for six years to see a consultant about her daughter’s nut allergy.

Don and Maxine Simpson, who were married for more than 60 years, died while holding each other’s hand.

Senior health service officials are examining ways to make potentially life-saving adrenaline shot epi-pens more widely available after the tragic death of a 14-year-old girl from a nut allergy last Christmas.

Children with potentially fatal food allergies are forced to wait up to three years to be tested because hospital screening services cannot cope with demand.

The Ireland Under-20s' first ever IRB Junior World Championship semi-final ended in defeat last night as defending champions England proved a class apart in Auckland.

A record-breaking rally in US stocks paused yesterday as investors assessed whether the rise in stock valuations overstated the recent improvement in the economy.

Perhaps Moneyball and Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s are to blame, but pro sport’s fascination with statistics is underlined by the franchises taking notes at a special stat conference in Boston

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IAN Sloan claimed Irish hockey has little chance of long-term success as he and David Ames rocked the sport by announcing their defections to England.

David Ames insists his loyalty still lies with Ireland — but has yet to set a date for when he will end his self-imposed international exile.

A robber in Britain accidentally left his driving licence behind in an abandoned van which he hired out in his own name.

The trial of four men accused of having equipment for printing counterfeit currency has been adjourned for a day to allow one of the men attend a medical appointment.

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A former leading member of the Provisional IRA and prison escaper was one of four men who appeared at the Special Criminal Court today charged with possessing equipment to make counterfeit money.

Four men accused of possessing equipment for printing counterfeit money are to face a non-jury trial at the Special Criminal Court.

IAN SLOAN gets another chance to continue his remarkable development into a top-class international hockey star after he was named in the Irish squad for next week’s INSEP Five Nations in Paris.

Four men are to face trial after they were charged with possessing counterfeit money-making equipment.

MONKSTOWN’S wait for a men’s Irish Senior Cup title will stretch into a 98th year after they were beaten 4-3 by Cookstown in a stunning final at Belfield yesterday.

CORK HARLEQUINS were left cursing themselves for going to sleep at the start of extra-time, allowing Cork Church of Ireland to plunder a golden-goal victory in Saturday’s Munster Senior Cup semi-final at Farmer’s Cross.

A former leading member of the Provisional IRA and Crumlin Road prison escaper was freed on bail on a terrorism charge by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A former leading member of the Provisional IRA and Crumlin Road prison escaper was remanded in custody with consent to bail when he appeared at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Belfast man was charged at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin tonight with IRA membership.

A 48 year-old Waterford man tried to kill his mentally ill wife by hitting her with a hammer because she would not stop talking, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A psychiatric expert has told the Central Criminal Court that a man who assaulted his wife poses an “extremely low risk” of re-offending, if he is not jailed.

A FATHER told a police operator, “I have murdered my entire family”, after stabbing his two children, their mother and her brother to death, a court heard yesterday.

A debt ridden mother-of-seven who stole €9,000 from her employer has "frittered away" €10,000 sent to her by an anonymous donor after reading newspapers reports of her court case.

Lindsay Lohan's publicist insists the actress would never have attended a Beverly Hills, California party on Friday, had she have known it was a Paris Hilton-endorsed event.

IRISH consumers in denial about their debt-fuelled credit card lifestyles are on course to rack up over €3 billion in debt this Christmas.

Victims of abuse by a former priest submitted a letter to the Vatican today asking for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and urging him to apologise to all victims of clergy abuse.

A former IRA jailbreaker was today detained for further questioning by gardaí in relation to yesterday’s armed extortion attempt in Co Cork.

Basle: Zuberbuhler, Zwyssig, Huggel, Sterjovski, Chipperfield, Gimenez, Kleber, Delgado, Philipp Degen, Smiljanic, Rossi. Subs: Quennoz, Carignano, Barberis, David Degen, Mandl.

Feyenoord: Babos, Saidi, Bosschaart, Kuijt, Ono, Goor, Paauwe, Kalou, Basto, Castelen, Zuiverloon. Subs: Lodewijks, Ghali, Lazovic, Buffel, Mtiglia, Loovens, Gyan.

Hearts captain Steven Pressley could be back in action for the Bank of Scotland Premier League game against Dundee United.

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WHILE secondary school teachers throughout the country sweat anxiously over the fate of their Junior and Leaving Cert students, primary school teachers had a very different set of results on their mind yesterday.