Karen Brown, the 31-year-old partner of Katie Taylor’s father, Pete, yesterday settled a €60,000 damages claim against a motorist who, it was claimed, rear-ended them two years ago.

Jastine Valdez was manually strangled to death a short time after being abducted by her suspected killer, Mark Hennessy.

A mum who suffered from a personality disorder and stabbed her toddler son to death was sentenced to five years in prison at the Central Criminal Court this morning.

A woman has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her toddler son at their home in Dublin.

The largest local authority in the country has unveiled a three-year €517.6m plan for spending on housing, roads, and other capital projects.

A mentally ill woman has been given a suspended sentence for holding a knife to her mother’s throat in a fit of jealousy after she found out her successful sister was coming home from Canada.

A mother who overloaded her shopping trolley with her children and injured herself in a fall has lost a €60,000 damages claim against her local Tesco, writes Ray Managh.

A mentally-ill woman held a knife to her elderly mother’s throat in a fit of jealousy after she found out her successful sister was coming home from Canada, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

Helen O’Callaghan learns about the Roots of Empathy scheme, in which babies and their parents visit schools to help foster ‘emotional literacy’.  

A Dublin woman accused of the murder of her two-year-old son has been returned for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

A long-term homeless man in Cork has been given the best present of all - a reunion and Christmas dinner with his family.

A mother accused of the murder of her two-year-old son, Muhammad Hassan Khan last week was unable to attend a court hearing yesterday.

A court has heard that a woman accused of killing her two-year-old son in south Dublin has been admitted to the Central Mental Hospital.

A mother accused of murdering her two-year-old son in south Dublin is due back in court today.

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her two-year-old son in south Dublin.

A 43-year-old woman is due to appear in court later this morning, charged in connection with the death of two year old Hassan Khan.

The level of state supports for the family of toddler Hassan Khan are set to be investigated following his shocking death.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said the level of state supports for the family of toddler Hassan Khan are likely to be investigated following his shocking death.

"I remember her as a little child in my garden, she played together with my kids. And this is what was ahead. It’s heartbreaking."

A woman in her 40s will appear in court tomorrow morning charged in connection with the death of a toddler yesterday.

Child welfare chiefs have said they will work with investigators probing the suspected murder of a two-year-old boy.

Gardaí are due to launch a murder investigation into the death of a two-year-old boy in Dublin.

Gardaí have arrested a woman in her 40s as part of a murder probe after a two-year-old boy was found stabbed to death yesterday.

Gardaí are expected to launch a murder investigation after a two-year-old boy was found dead in an apartment.

There was great excitement at the sale of some prime farmland at Carrignavar, Co Cork, recently when two young farmers went head to head for the 70-acre grassland farm at Ballybrack, just outside Cork city and in a very intensive dairying area.

A spike in the number of burglaries in south Co Dublin has led to an increased Gardaí presence in the area.

A Dublin mother-of-two has lost her legal action against the owners of a pub in Loughlinstown after she was injured during an Ann Summers lingerie party.

Two men who barged their way into the home of two brothers because they claimed they wanted a “straightener” over a drug debt have been jailed for stabbing the men’s fathers.

The HSE has confirmed that Dublin's Loughlinstown Hospital will lose its emergency department at the end of the month.

CARRIGNAVAR, CORK €495,000

New bridges and cycleways will form part of a plan to free up traffic in a congested area on the southside of Cork City.

A culvert trash screen which became blocked with debris during a torrential downpour, triggering a devastating flood through a Cork suburb, is to be removed.

For many people €325 may not be a particularly significant sum.

HSE budget woes are leaving some children confined to wheelchairs while they wait up to 20 months for special disability equipment.

Large parts of Cork City are now “uninsurable” due to the spate of flooding incidents in recent years — the most recent of which occurred just over a week ago.

IT’S been just one year since we launched our new-look Irish Examiner Property and Interiors supplement. Since that April, we’ve brought news and shown you some of the very best houses to come to the Munster market.

Kitsborough was the biggest house sale in Cork this year, exceeding its €1.5m-plus guide price, writes Property Editor Tommy Barker

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

A heavily intoxicated woman was thrown over the top railing of a double decker bus after becoming involved in violent row with another group of passengers, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

An inquest has heard that a 71-year-old man died four days after an altercation at a Co Dublin nursing home last August.