A landmark case involving a severely disabled man born from incestuous rape has reached the British Court of Appeal.

A killer taxi driver accused of murdering a sex worker in the UK has insisted to a jury that he never knew her.

Ms Y, the asylum seeker who unsuccessfully sought an abortion after arriving in Ireland pregnant as a result of an alleged rape, has launched a civil action for damages.

The woman at the centre of an abortion controversy last year has settled her High Court challenge aimed at stopping a HSE inquiry into the care provided to her by various State agencies.

Crrigeen Acebo is providing the Lalor family from outside Clonmel with some tremendous sport this season and the seven-year-old recorded her fifth consecutive point-to-point success of the campaign by winning a thrilling mares’ open at yesterday’s Cloyne Harriers meeting at Dromahane.

An asylum seeker is planning legal action after she unsuccessfully sought an abortion in Ireland last summer.

The woman at the centre of an abortion controversy earlier this year has launched High Court proceedings aimed at stopping a HSE inquiry into the care provided to her by state agencies.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has firmly ruled out any change to abortion laws before the next general election, despite expressing sympathy for women whose pregnancies involve fatal foetal abnormalities.

The Taoiseach has reiterated that the issue of abortion will not be revisited in the lifetime of this Government.

The new political season may be under way with the Cabinet reassembling, but coalition chiefs were only concerned about putting on a new face mask for the unreal political world they inhabit says Political Correspondent, Shaun Connolly

Health Minister Leo Varadkar was set to brief Cabinet colleagues today on the caesarian controversy involving a teenage immigrant that provoked outrage last month.

Hundreds of anti-abortion protesters have turned out on O’Connell Street to hold a candlelit vigil.

The terms of reference for the inquiry into the handling of the care of the woman at the centre of the latest abortion debate have been published.

The HSE has published the terms of reference for its review into the case of a suicidal woman who was refused an abortion.

A 29-year-old man charged in connection with a ‘barbaric’ attack on three pensioner siblings at their isolated home in Limerick will serve no time in jail after receiving a suspended jail sentence.

Two investigations in Ireland and the US were carried out into an incident on an Aer Lingus flight where two flight attendants were accused of being drunk, abusive and threatening to passengers.

Passengers had been expecting a relaxed, uneventful transatlantic flight, but what they got was several hours ‘terrified at the hands of an intoxicated and out-of-control flight crew’, reports Conall Ó Fátharta.

Frederic Michalak has been named in France’s squad for their two-match tour of Argentina next month.

A crowded night bus has plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 passengers and injuring 21 others in one of the country’s deadliest road accidents.

Sebastien Chabal has been omitted from France’s provisional 32-man squad for the World Cup in September.

IT’S been a week the French will want to forget. Vilified in the press, ashamed to walk down the streets and bubbling with tension since their shock loss to Italy last week.

France coach Marc Lievremont has made five changes for Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations finale against Wales in Paris.

ARGENTINA will arrive in Dublin on the back of an error-strewn 15-9 defeat to France in Montpellier.

BYRON KELLEHER admits Toulouse are still smarting from their 2008 Heineken Cup defeat to Munster as they chase a fourth European title.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was allegedly behind an attempted “blackmail” plot in the 1990s relating to a former junior minister and rent boys in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

THE mother of a severely disabled child waiting seven years for suitable council housing is unlikely to be an isolated case, the Ombudsman for Children has warned.

Authorities at Paris’ largest airport have stripped several dozen employees - almost all Muslims – of their security badges in a crackdown against terrorism.

Syria has handed over 22 people suspected of involvement in Turkey’s quadruple suicide bombings, authorities said.

France will be at full strength for their mouth-watering World Cup quarter-final encounter with Ireland in Melbourne on Sunday.

Today’s order of play at Wimbledon