The vote was thrown into doubt following the death of a candidate.

The government has been accused of “misusing” data protection rules and of “deception” in refusing to name lawyers paid over €7m to fight the EU's illegal state aid Apple tax case against Ireland.

According to the latest figures provided by the Department of Finance, legal firm, William Fry has received €3.1m in fees over the past five years concerning its work on the case.

The BBC has said it will not challenge a High Court judge's ruling after it lost a legal battle with Mr Richard Richard over its coverage of a police raid on his home.

Prosecutors in Panama have formally arrested the partners of a law firm involved in last year's "Panama Papers" scandal, in which thousands of pages of documents related to offshore accounts were leaked.

Disgraced DJ Dave Lee Travis's three-month suspended sentence for indecent assault was "neither wrong in principle nor unduly lenient", the Attorney General has found.

The mayor of top Mexican tourist resort Cancun was charged with drug trafficking links today.

The Moriarty Tribunal has been hearing evidence about a meeting in 2002 between the Tribunal's lawyers and the Attorney General's Office about the issue of ownership of the State's second mobile phone licence.

Industrial action by hospital consultants is looking increasingly likely after talks aimed at resolving the matter ended without agreement last night.