More than 1,000 mourners gathered today to pay their respects at the funeral of Former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

The funeral of former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan takes place in Dublin today.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese and her husband, Senator Martin McAleese, led the mourners at Brian Lenihan’s removal last night.

Irish President Mary McAleese has led hundreds of mourners at the removal of the former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

The funeral details have been announced for the former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, who died yesterday at the age of 52.

The Government cannot afford to press ahead with controversial plans for a massive prison complex in north Dublin, it was revealed tonight.

FOR many people it is the romance of racing that is the attraction; of being part of – or merely witnessing – fabled stories which are ultimately woven into the very fabric of the sport and become legend.

Placing the Central Mental Hospital beside a super prison in north Co Dublin will isolate patients and reinforce stigmas liked to mental illness, experts warned the Oireachtas Health Committee today.

WE have 6,000 people willing to work for nothing in the Garda Reserve while their full-time colleagues treat them with contempt.

YESTERDAY the Comptroller and Auditor General’s annual report highlighted many areas of serious concern regarding the process that led to the purchase of Thornton Hall, the price paid and the lack of consistency in evaluating the different sites (Irish Examiner, September 28).

WORK on the controversial new prison at Thornton Hall in north Co Dublin can proceed after a High Court challenge to the development was withdrawn yesterday.

Plans for a super prison in rural Co Dublin should be subject to normal environmental and planning regulations, it was claimed today.

Caroline O’Doherty and Michael Brennan

Gardaí have released the names of two victims in separate road accidents today.

Gardai have released the results of the post mortem in Dublin on the body of a newborn baby found in a dump in Swords in north Dublin. It concluded that the infant was born alive.