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A 23-year-old woman developed a blood clot and died weeks after starting to take the contraceptive pill, an inquest heard. Friends concerned for Lauren Johnson from Castle Grove in Swords, Co Dublin found her semi-conscious in bed at home on September 3rd, 2015. She died due to a blood clot and associated haemorrhage in the brain at Beaumont Hospital four days later. Ms Johnson, known to her friends and family as ‘Rosy’, had spent a year in Japan and was working as a Japanese translator in Dublin. She had been suffering from persistent headaches in the weeks leading up to her death, Dublin Coroner’s Court heard. Her parents were away in Portugal when she became ill. She visited her local GP in

Updated 10.30pm: US singer Tom Petty is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected heart attack, according to US reports. Website TMZ said the Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers frontman, 66, is "clinging to life" after the heart attack on Sunday. CBS News originally reported that police had confirmed the singer's death but the Los Angeles Police Department later said details had "inadvertently" been given out and the force had "no information". The LAPD said on Twitter: "The LAPD has no information about the passing of singer Tom Petty. Initial information was inadvertantly (sic) provided to some media sources. However, the LAPD has no investigative role in this matter. We apologize for any inconvenience

A Dublin man who repeatedly raped his two nephews when they were small boys has been jailed for eight years. James Maher (64) inflicted “pain and violence” on his young nephews, who were aged eight and six when he started abusing them 37 years ago, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Monday. One victim described how Maher abused him “like an animal” and both brothers described turning to drugs as a way of coping with the pain of the abuse. Judge Patricia Ryan jailed him for nine years but suspended the final year, taking into account his age, health issues, guilty plea and lack of previous convictions. In a victim-impact statement previously read out in court, one of the man’s victims, now

The Minister for Justice has again refused to revoke a deportation order against an Algerian man with alleged links to Islamic terrorism, the High Court has heard. Last July the Supreme Court unanimously quashed the Minister for Justice's refusal to revoke the deportation order issued in December 2016. The Supreme Court also remitted the man's case back to the Minister for further reconsideration. The Supreme Court's ruling came after the man appealed an earlier High Court order which found the Minister's decision that there were no substantial grounds to find that the man would be at real risk of ill treatment if deported to his home country was lawful. The State had opposed the appeal. The

IT IS A familiar scene. Pundits and commentators suggest that their country should call up a young player after he makes his breakthrough at club level. It happens every season for almost every country. Except when Bolivian pundits called for the inclusion of Ruben Aguilar, they failed to realise that the 24-year-old right-back was ineligible to play for the country. The France-born defender signed for Ligue 1 side Montpellier from Auxerre in May, and has been getting attention after breaking into their first team. This included a call from the Bolivian Football Association about the possibility of a call-up to the national side, but unfortunately for the South American country, their eligibility

The low-cost airline does not recognise unions and instead deal with staff issues through their own Employee Representative Councils (ERCs). Yesterday, a letter was circulated among Ryanair pilots stating that one centralised committee was being formed. The letter said the single committee was being established to “oppose the long-standing strategy of divide and conquer that Ryanair has applied in its dealing with pilots”. It also stated the pilots would need to employ “immense will” in order to overcome the alleged tactic. “To overthrow this structure will require immense force of will, stamina and commitment from every pilot,” the letter read. “It is entirely possible that things will get worse