Six members of the family of Terence Wheelock, who died having been in Garda custody last year, claim to have been assaulted by gardaí at their home on 17 May. Scott Millar hears their account of what happened

One of the mysteries of the modern world is the intense personal sympathy many people seem to have for the stingy, crabb...

Missing files, altered registers, suspicious removal and returns of charts. All were part of a conspiracy of obstruction encountered during an inquiry into Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Gardaí may open a new criminal investigation based on the findings. Sara Burke reports

In the Sunday Independent of 21 May, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth.

Activist, architect and editor turned broadcaster, Marian Finucane's gravelly voice is gaining radio listeners for RTÉ on weekend mornings. Profile by Colin Murphy.

The granting of a national radio license to NewsTalk 106 is the most interesting development in Irish radio since the in...

The audience loves this couple of hours in the company of a resident of St Conal's mental hospital, but Colin Murphy feels left out

From German cowboys on horseback to Finnish Orcs stealing the show, Dermot Bolger wonders at the bizarre circus that was this year's Eurovision song contest

A Belfast high court judge has dismissed arts magazine The Vacuum's lawsuit accusing the Belfast City Council of infringing upon the organisation's human rights. Publishers Stephen Hackett and Richard West claimed the city council was restricting the magazine's freedom of expression when it withheld funding from The Vacuum, after it published material that some of its members deemed “blasphemous”. Instead, on Thursday 4 May, the High Court ruled in favour of the city council.

Billy Leahy on Alexis Harding's site-specific exhibition, a display of dripping, crumbling works currently flowing onto the floor of the Rubicon gallery