Gardaí delayed handing over mobile phone evidence to the team prosecuting a man for the Omagh bombing, a lawyer told a court yesterday.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has ordered the Garda Ombudsman to conduct a public interest inquiry into events surrounding the death of Shane O’Farrell, the 23-year-old man who was killed in a hit and run in 2011.

The parents of a young man savagely murdered by a teenage car thief have spoken of their devastation at their son’s loss.

Small local suppliers of stationery, computer equipment, and other goods for schools fear new rules on centralised buying could costs hundreds of jobs.

A DISPUTE has arisen between two secretaries as to whether the medical chart of a deceased patient had lain in a consultant’s office tray for months or weeks.

A FORMER registrar at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has told a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry she cannot recall a note left on a chart to ensure a biopsy was conducted on a woman who died from cancer.

A CONSULTANT obstetrician and gynaecologist is facing a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry over the care he gave to a young woman who died from cancer two years ago.

A pregnant woman, her unborn baby and two men were killed in an horrific multi-vehicle car crash that has left a community stunned.

Defiant residents in a coastal commuter town have threatened to disrupt work on one of the country’s largest energy projects over safety concerns.

DESPITE advances in the past 100 years, Ireland remains one of the least wooded countries in Europe with only 10% of our land planted with trees compared to the European average of 40%.

Maze prison escapee Brendan McFarlane was arrested just hours before the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Mo Mowlam was due to sign his final papers releasing him from parole, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A retired Garda ballistics expert told the Don Tidey kidnap trial today that he concluded that gunfire from two automatic weapons had been fired in the direction of a recruit garda and soldier who were killed when the supermarket executive was rescued almost twenty five years ago.

Maze prison escapee Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane went on trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for the 1983 kidnapping of supermarket boss Don Tidey during which a trainee garda and soldier were killed.

THE Labour party has called on the Tánaiste to explain why a report into the preventable death of a patient faces a three-month delay.

IT IS the kind of controversy that the mischievous devil in Patrick Kavanagh would have relished: the dead poet, the very much alive beauty and the perplexed academics — all locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of literate Ireland.