GARDAÍ were questioning a man as part of an investigation into the discovery of a woman’s body in a small town in Co Laois.

GARDAÍ believe that 43-year-old John Butler killed his two daughters at their home in east Cork before dousing his car in petrol and deliberately crashing it at high speed into a ditch.

AN obstetrician has told a court hearing into the death of an infant who died after what appeared a normal delivery at home that home births should not take place more than half an hour away from a hospital.

One of three suspects who fled Ireland after being arrested over a mysterious death is back in the country working in the black economy, an inquest heard today.

A TEENAGER was brought before a special sitting of Roscommon District Court last night and charged in connection with the death of a man in a small Roscommon village.

A man accused of murdering a woman in his flat told gardaí he 'saw red' after she bit his penis, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

AN angry father claimed yesterday that there is no justice system for the ordinary man after he and his family had to take a civil action in the High Court against the owners of a nightclub where his son died after a row with staff.

The mother of a 21-year-old Clare man accused of murdering his 17-year-old sister broke down in the witness box as she told a jury she didn't know why her son killed her daughter.

PEOPLE who take even the smallest amounts of cocaine are playing Russian roulette, the Assistant State Pathologist warned yesterday.

Dermot Laide has expressed his "profound regret and remorse" for his involvement in the incident in which student Brian Murphy died.

The State Pathologist is conducting a post mortem on the body of a man who died last night while in garda custody.

Gardaí have launched an investigation following the discovery of a man’s body in a house in Clones today.

A father-of-three, who worked with the Electricity Supply Board for over 30-years, died from exposure to asbestos, an inquest heard tonight.

Gardaí are treating as suspicious the death of a woman found in Co Roscommon last night.

BEAUMONT HOSPITAL feared that, if a new facility for the State Pathologist’s Office was located on its grounds, patients and visitors would be distressed by the sight of corpses being wheeled in and out of the building.

The Assistant State Pathologist is travelling to Galway to carry out a post-mortem examination on the body of a woman in her 60s.

An 18-year-old student died from brain damage after he was viciously kicked in the head by a gang of at least four youths outside a well-known Dublin hotel, a court has heard.

A JURY foreman yesterday called on the National Roads Authority (NRA) to study a stretch of the main Cork/Killarney road on which a senior Cork County Council official and her small daughter died.

Gardai were today attempting to identify the body of a man found in a suitcase floating in Dublin’s Royal Canal.