The trial of three former Tesco executives in the UK over their alleged role in a £326m accounting scandal at the supermarket is due to start.

A woman who claims she felt the scalpel as it cut into her during a caesarean section under local anaesthetic to deliver her second child has sued the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St, Dublin, in the High Court.

The High Court has today dismissed a medical negligence claim brought on behalf of a child with profound physical and mental difficulties against the National Maternity Hospital.

A Kildare mother-of-four who attempted to defrauded €2,200 has been remanded on bail pending sentence next year.