A group of eight farmers whose EU payments were cut off by the Department of Agriculture without any notice or reason took their case to the European Parliament.

For more than 30 years the murder of the new-born baby girl found dumped in an alleyway has been shrouded in mystery.

FIRST it was “Niamh”, who told of giving birth to a baby girl in her teens after years of sex abuse.

A woman hung herself as a direct result of sexual abuse during her childhood in Co Dublin, an inquest heard tonight.