The jury at the inquest into the death of a baby found in a plastic bag in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin in 1973 has retired to consider it verdict.

A woman hung herself as a direct result of sexual abuse during her childhood in Co Dublin, an inquest heard tonight.

Bob Geldof hit the big time as leader of the new wave band the Boomtown Rats, but it was getting musicians behind the fight against African famine that put him on the world stage.