Six people appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting patients who are intellectually disabled at the HSE-run Áras Attracta centre in Swinford, Co Mayo.

The HSE has taken the first steps towards the possible installation of surveillance systems in its facilities to protect vulnerable patients in the wake of the Áras Attracta controversy.

A woman who knows care services “from the inside out” has agreed to be the HSE’s confidential recipient of abuse claims.

It has been confirmed that the HSE inquiry into treatment of residents at Aras Attracta will be delayed until after a garda inquiry is completed.

Maia Dunphy examines our concepts of beauty in the concluding episode of her series What Women Want on RTÉ2 on Thursday.

Nine workers at a centre for people with intellectual disabilities, which is being investigated by gardaí after the sudden death of a resident in 2012, have been taken "off duty" after separate serious abuse allegations.

A 31-year-old man has appeared in court accused of stabbing a taxi driver during an alleged carjacking in Dublin in the early hours of Saturday.

A HSE-run residential unit for adults with intellectual disabilities has been heavily criticised for failing to comply with stringent safety, staff training and hygiene laws.

Ireland’s health watchdog uncovered serious issues about how residents were treated at a HSE-run facility for adults with intellectual disabilities after being informed by whistleblowers of a death at the unit.

A property developer who was allegedly kidnapped for eight months has been released from plice custody.

A businessman who claims to have been held hostage at an unknown location for eight months before his sudden reappearance in January has sought to quash rumours he had engaged in fraud.

A wealthy businessman found wandering a lonely border road in a barefoot and dishevelled condition last Tuesday is to face formal questioning by gardaí later this week about his mysterious disappearance.

Cannabis plants worth €5m have been seized as part of an ongoing nationwide anti-drugs operation.

An Irishman has died in Laos while he was truying to cross a river.

Connacht Gold’s year-end milk price projections in the “mid-to-high twenties” could lead to some dairy farmers taking a hit of more than 25% in their present incomes.

Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today led tributes to the young garda who died today after being injured in a head-on car crash.

Dozens of gardaí gathered at a bedside vigil today for their young colleague who was left fighting for life after being mown down by suspected car thieves.

Two teenagers will appear in court today after a young garda mown down by car thieves was left fighting for his life.

The family of a young garda officer was keeping a bedside vigil tonight as he fought for life after being mown down by teenage car thieves.

A SON of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, who was shot dead in an IRA robbery in 1996, was among the 286 gardaí who graduated at Templemore College yesterday.

FLOUTING of opening hour restrictions during the 1961 Fleadh Ceoil was an orchestrated revolt by publicans, gardaí in the district believed.

A female cyclist in her 60s has died after being struck by a lorry in Swinford, Co Mayo, yesterday evening.

SIX people died over the weekend, the joint second worst death toll for the August bank holiday since 1991.