David Byrne, Denis McCullough, Vivian Lavan and Ian Candy are not, collectively, household names in Ireland, but they should be.

She started her own practice in the mid-1980s, in the midst of recession. In 2011, not much has changed for Ireland. Now a director of FLAC, Noeline Blackwell still sees first-hand the look of despair on people’s faces, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A damages action taken by the parents of a four year old boy whose right arm was paralysed at the time of his birth, has been settled out of court.

A Nigerian woman who claimed she would be stoned to death if deported to her home country, today lost her legal bid blocking that deportation.

ON the face of it, it seemed that the South Western Area Health Board (SWHB) was to be commended when it took action against a Rathgar nursing home on a number of counts following a visit by a team of inspectors twice this month.