Society’s interest in disco-uraging suicide does not justify the State’s blanket ban on assisted suicide in the case of a terminally ill woman who wants to die at a time of her choosing but is unable to take her own life, the High Court was told yesterday.

The Equality Tribunal has awarded €3,000 to a disabled man who was harassed by Iarnrod Éireann staff on the Cork to Thurles line.

A WHEELCHAIR user had an egg thrown at him by disgruntled rail staff, angry that he had to use the dining car when travelling on the train.

HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday attended the funeral of a retired couple who died when their car collided with a lorry on the Knocklong/Mitchelstown road.