GAY Byrne’s daughter, Crona says she has been bombarded with phone calls from Fianna Fáil supporters urging her to encourage her father to throw his hat into the Presidential election ring.

INDEPENDENT inspectors have uncovered what they claim are a series of “unacceptable practices” at a nursing home.

THE trial of former Clare GP Paschal Carmody, who is accused of defrauding the families of two cancer patients, has collapsed.

JOHN BILLINGHAM turned heads as he strolled through the arrivals lounge at Shannon Airport yesterday. But the Richard Branson lookalike is used to the public attention he gets. English-born John, 53, who has a home in Killaloe, Co Clare, said: “People are all the time coming up to me and stopping me on the street.”

The body of a man was today recovered from the River Shannon close to where a young man went missing just weeks before Christmas.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are planning to search an area where, a psychic believes, the body of a murdered teenager may be.

Seán McCárthaigh recounts some of the evidence given in the witness box by Celia Larkin at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

The former partner of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Mahon Tribunal today that she saw bundles of sterling cash on a desk in his constituency office while he was finance minister in 1994.

THE pathologist whose incorrect analysis led 41-year-old breast cancer patient Rebecca O’Malley to believe she did not have the disease worked at Cork University Hospital for at least one year, it has emerged.

A BREAKDOWN in communication between two hospitals added to the trauma of a woman wrongly given the all-clear for breast cancer.

The Apple Farm, Moorstown, Cahir, Co Tipperary are now selling Jonagored eating apples and Bramley cookers; apple juice and apple jelly; farm-made cider vinegar and strawberry and plum jams.

GARDAÍ will shortly send a file to the DPP following an investigation into the activities of two doctors who treated cancer patients with a controversial therapy.

A MOTHER of two young children has died while undergoing minor cosmetic surgery in New York.

THE deputy State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster, was due in Limerick last night to carry out a post mortem on a middle-aged man whose body was found by the roadside near Killaloe, Co Clare, earlier in the day.

TWO disgraced doctors accused of selling false hope to terminally ill cancer patients had their premises raided by detectives yesterday.

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S husband was in so much pain before he died he could only sleep for 15 minutes at a time while supported in a lukewarm bath.