Restaurateurs Derry Clarke and Sallyanne Parker-Clarke have urged vulnerable young people to seek help following the inquest into the death of their teenage son.

There were emotional scenes as the remains of Andrew Clarke, the son of celebrity chef Derry Clarke and his wife Sallyanne, arrived at the chapel of his old school of Clongowes Wood.

The distraught mother of teen Andrew Clarke has revealed how she “willed him to live” as she rode with him in the ambulance to Tallaght Hospital.

The teenage son of restaurateurs Sallyanne and Derry Clarke has died following a tragic accident at home.

THE HSE is expected to close the 90-bed St Brigid’s Nursing Home in Crooksling in Dublin over the next three to six months.

A nursing home in south Dublin is to close over the next three months with the loss of 90 beds.

A DUBLIN man has been given a three-year suspended sentence, a fine and a 20-year driving ban for dangerous driving causing the death of his friend two years ago.

One man remains in a serious condition in hospital in Dublin after a road crash that also injured four others.

A former soldier was given a five-year suspended prison sentence by a judge at the Central Criminal Court today after a jury found him guilty of the manslaughter of the 18-month-old son of his first cousin.

The jury in the trial of a former solider accused of the murder of an 18 month infant were sent to a hotel this evening after failing to reach a verdict.

A former soldier accused of murdering an infant today accepted in court that he had killed the child, 18-months old Oisin Reilly-Murphy.

A former soldier accused of murdering an 18-month infant did not suffer from mental illness, a consultant psychiatrist told the Central Criminal Court today.

The killing of an 18-month infant was "bizarre in the extreme" but the guilt of the accused man depended on whether or not the act was voluntary, a murder trial jury heard today.

DNA samples taken from a man accused of murdering an 18-month-old infant matched that of the infant, a forensic expert told a murder trial jury today.

A former soldier told gardai he did not believe he could have killed the 18-month old infant he is alleged to have stabbed to death, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A former soldier accused of murdering an 18-month-old infant told gardai that, if responsible, he wished the child's father would shoot him, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A former soldier charged with murdering an 18-month-old infant appeared drunk when gardai arrived at the scene on the morning of the killing, a murder trial jury heard.

A former UN sanctions inspector and ex Irish Army Ranger, charged with the murder of an 18-month-old infant, seemed unaware that he was sleeping beside the dead baby's body, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

An ex-Irish Army Ranger and former sanctions inspector in Iraq stabbed to death an 18-month-old infant by slashing the baby's neck so forcefully that it cut into the cervical bone, it was alleged in the Central Criminal Court today.

A 32-year-old man today pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of an 18-month-old baby in Co Dublin almost two years ago.