One garda was used as a “human shield” from a hatchet-wielding 16-year-old while gardaí were powerless to prevent another man slashing his victim 11 times across the face and back with a Stanley knife in broad daylight.

A surgeon has been cleared by a Medical Council inquiry into the treatment of a woman who died following three operations at Ennis General Hospital.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to a savage attack on a taxi driver who was robbed and left for dead on the side of a roadway in Co Tipperary.

DIY chain Atlantic Homecare has been placed in examinership following an application by the company to the High Court in Dublin today.

An unemployed father of eight is calling on Limerick City Council to give his family a bigger house.

An unemployed father of eight is demanding a bigger house from his local authority so he can have more children.

A 22-YEAR-OLD disabled man was yesterday returned for trial charged with causing a fire at a care home in August 2010 during which a 95-year-old woman died.