The family of an Irishman shot dead by security forces in Bolivia over an alleged presidential assassination plot is to step up its campaign for EU help in holding the foreign authorities to account.

TALLAGHT Hospital has been described as a very “dangerous place for anybody” by a coroner and as having “appallingly poor standards of sanitation” by one of its own consultants.

Four former Fianna Fáil politicians and a Gibraltar-based businessman tonight appeared in court in connection with a multimillion-euro land deal alleged to be corrupt.

A SURVEY by the small business representative body, ISME, has found 28% of small and medium sized businesses were the victims of crime in the last 12 months.

A Montessori School owner must sell her home after defrauding a building society out of almost €50,000 by using a chequebook for a closed Scout Association of Ireland bank account.

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ABOUT €700,000 is to be spent on the National Drug Awareness Campaign, due to start in the coming weeks.

A DUBLIN County Coroner was “biased” in the conduct of an inquest that resulted in a jury finding that an unidentified dead baby which was found in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire in 1973 was the child of Cynthia Owen, the High Court was told yesterday.

Votes cast in central Dublin constituencies could be counted in the Point Depot for the first time ever and may clash with a Girls Aloud concert, it emerged today.

MENTAL health campaigners have pleaded for psychiatric patients to be spared the impact of today’s planned work stoppage by nurses.

GARDAÍ have launched an investigation into the death of a four-month-old baby after a preliminary examination found he had extensive internal injuries.

Taxpayers should not be expected to pay countless millions to keep the Mahon Tribunal into planning corruption going for more than a decade, it was claimed tonight.