A woman who put her exhaustion and headaches down to divorce stress was horrified when doctors told her she was actually 48 hours from death from leukaemia. So urgent was Kate Stallard’s case that she didn’t even have time to freeze her eggs before she began treatment that would render her infertile – meaning she [...]
It has been reported that Jason Byrne has split up from his wife of 14 years, Brenda. A friend of the couple told the Mail on Sunday that they broke up some time ago and he has moved out of their family home. They said: “Jason is a loving father but I suppose, one of the downfalls of [...]
Monsanto suffered a major blow with a jury ruling that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer, awarding him $289m in damages. Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former groundskeeper, won a huge victory in the landmark case on Friday, with the jury determining that Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer and that the corporation [...]
The Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal’s refusal to compensate a woman who suffered a psychiatric illness after her father died from an HIV-related illness 30 years ago has been overturned in a landmark High Court decision by Mr Justice Bernard Barton. The ruling now leaves open the door to a number of similar claims [...]
A mother-of-two is suing a hairdresser for £1m over claims treatment she received at the salon caused her to suffer a stroke. Adele Burns had her hair washed six times during a treatment at Rainbow Rooms in Glasgow, and her lawyers say the impact of the sink on her neck is what led to the [...]
An elderly man has died following a collision in Galway yesterday afternoon. The incident occurred on the Monivea Road near Carnmore at around 2pm. A 70-year-old man was fatally injured when his car was involved in the collision with a truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was taken to University [...]
The acting pair's relationship crumbled in 2016 after allegations of abuse levelled at Johnny Depp by his former partner - including throwing an iPhone at her face in May 2016 - but now Depp has claimed that his ex-wife punched him twice in a new court filing. Depp filed the documents in the UK, where [...]
A heavy wooden sliding gate was mechanically defective when it fell and crushed a five-year-old girl outside her home, an inquest has heard. Sienna Joyce died just weeks before her sixth birthday after the gate de-railed from its sliders and fell, trapping the child underneath. “She was my life, the air that I breathed. We [...]
The HSE and the Regional Hospital in Mullingar have apologised for the failings in the care of a grandmother who died at the hospital three days after turning up at A&E with abdominal pain. Grandmother of eight Angela Farrell it was claimed was suffering from a complication of a previous partial gastrectomy and it it [...]
The High Court has awarded €263,000 in damages to the husband of a woman who took her own life after being discharged from UHG for taking an overdose of pills. Angelo Cloonan sued the HSE and Dr. Kishan Browne for negligence, claiming that they had not properly assessed his wife Josephine’s suicide risk when they [...]