A mother has told how she desperately waved her hands in a bid to stop a car hitting her young son seconds before he was killed.

A mother who lost five members of her family when their car plunged off a pier has run a marathon in memory of her son just weeks after the tragedy.

A teenager who found a way of stopping his earphones from falling to the ground, and tripping him up, has won the top Student Enterprise Award.

An inquest into Ireland’s biggest ever road crash has opened amidst claims of a cover-up.

A High Court judge has described a legal action where three sons have sued their father over his late mother’s — their grandmother’s — will as being an unfortunate family dispute.

Pregnant and elderly patients are at risk of ill health because the vast majority of hospital and nursing home staff are failing to get the flu jab.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has claimed he is not concerned that his former lawyer ordered a review of allegations that he withheld information on his sex abuser brother.

A decision not to prosecute Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams over allegations that he withheld information on his sex abuser brother is to be reviewed.

The Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams is refusing to say why he didn't inform child protection authorities after his brother Liam got a job working with children in Louth in 2003.

MARCH

Police in the North have today apologised after raiding the home of a Sinn Féin Lord Mayor as part of a probe into republican activity.

Three men have been arrested and eight weapons seized by police involved in a major security operation against republican vigilantes in Derry.

A national vaccination register should be set up to ensure exact details are readily available about people in the grip of virus outbreaks such as that at the Nazareth House nursing home.

HSE guidelines warn that the type of virus which caused a lethal nursing home outbreak could spread rapidly in enclosed settings and, among older people, may not be stopped by the flu jab.

The nursing home at the centre of six sudden deaths and 27 more infections caused by a flu outbreak was told of potential cross-infection risks two years ago.

The Health Service Executive is investigating the deaths of six people at a private nursing home in Buncrana, Co Donegal which took place in the last eleven days.

Up to 40 men have been forced out of a city by a republican vigilante group who shot dead a dad-of-two, it has been claimed.

ALMOST €16 million worth of property was sold at yesterday’s distressed properties auction at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin.

THE inadequate and unsafe conditions of some schools that rely on fundraising for equipment was highlighted by Department of Education inspectors yesterday.

DOZENS of while balloons were released into the sky yesterday as families bereaved by traffic accidents gathered to remember their loved ones and appeal for greater effort to reduce the toll on the country’s roads.

VICTIMS of road accidents will be remembered across the country tomorrow.

Victims of road accidents will be remembered across the country on Sunday.

The family of a murdered Sinn Féin councillor are due to meet staff from the Police Ombudsman's office in the North later today to discuss their ongoing campaign for justice.

MORE THAN 800 serious road accidents involving non-national drivers were recorded last year as the number of such incidents has shown a strong upward trend since 2003.

A man in his early twenties was killed this morning when he was struck by a car as he was walking at Green Banks, in Muss, near Buncrana, Co Donegal.

A key witness at the Morris tribunal into garda corruption claims admitted today she received money from both the gardai and a woman with suspected terrorist links for relaying information to them.

The Morris Tribunal probe into alleged garda corruption heard today about noisy metal-grinding work that went on late into the night in a first floor flat of a house in Buncrana, Co Donegal.

Alleged IRA informant Adrienne McGlinchey offered a Morris Tribunal witness a cut of a “million pounds pay-out” if he backed up her story over garda involvement in the mixing of explosives at a shed owned by her mother, it emerged today.

The landlord of a flat in Buncrana, Co Donegal found terrorist-type materials when he called at his premises to check reports of a plumbing leak, the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption today heard.