There has been a surge in the number of criminal suspects surrendered to Ireland from Britain under an EU-wide warrant system that the UK is leaving at the end of December.

The Irish Refugee Council has called for a review of how deaths in Direct Provision are handled after a transgender woman was buried without a ceremony or anyone close to her present.

A Sudanese man who twice overstayed his visa to Ireland has failed in a High Court challenge to a refusal to allow him remain here.

More than 600 children under the age of four are living in Ireland's asylum seeker system.

An explosive new report published by the Department of Justice is reporting allegations of “inappropriate relationships” between some women prisoners at the Dóchas centre in Dublin “and a small number of male staff”.

An expert group examining issues within the Department of Justice made an oblique reference to the phrase when they criticised its way of operating, saying: “It is as if the system has naturally evolved to ensure that the buck stops nowhere.”

A review is underway to make the rape trial system fairer for victims.

Inmates in Irish prisons were awarded €600,000 last year in compensation payments for injuries.

The Department of Justice has admitted that officials never examined any private email or mobile phones belonging to ministers or their advisors during its search for files linked to the disclosures tribunal.

The Department of Justice has been criticised for 'ad hoc' emails about Garda whistleblowers.

The mishandling of emails within the Department of Justice which forced the resignation of former Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald last November was “ad hoc” and “unsatisfactory” but not deliberate, a new report has concluded.

A major rift has opened up among management in the Irish Prison Service (IPS) amid allegations about bullying, intimidation, and the monitoring of communications.

The Policing Authority has told the boss of the Department of Justice that she needs to be “proactive” and “visible” in backing cultural change among garda management.

The Department of Justice has missed the deadline to respond to one of the Ombudsman’s key recommendations about the Magdalene Redress scheme.

Private firms operating a countrywide network of direct provision centres for asylum seekers and refugees last year shared a €50m (including VAT) bonanza.

The Department of Justice is prepared to spend €13m to find urgent accommodation for the increasing number of people coming into the country seeking refuge.

The Department of Justice has stepped up its plans to provide accommodation and services worth €40m for refugees of the Syrian conflict.

The Department of Justice is to be split but will remain under one minister, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed.

The email accounts of former minister for justice Frances Fitzgerald and her political advisers were not examined in the recent trawl for documents relevant to the Charleton Tribunal.

Oireachtas members have severely criticised the acting chief of the Department of Justice for insisting the department had “fully complied” with initial discovery orders issued by the Charleton Tribunal.

A formal investigation has yet to be initiated into a protected disclosure in the Irish Prison Service (IPS) alleging sexual harassment, a payout in compensation, and the deployment of the individual involved in another state agency where he has contact with minors, writes Michael Clifford.

How much oversight is too much? One thing that has emerged from the shenanigans of the last week or so is that the gardaí and the Department of Justice could do with plenty of oversight.

An independent barrister is likely to be appointed, potentially as soon as this weekend, to oversee an external inquiry into why the Department of Justice failed to hand over key Maurice McCabe email files to the Charleton Tribunal.

In July 2015, the following was the official line to be conveyed to the media by the minister for justice about the status of Sgt Maurice McCabe.

The Department of Justice has received a hammering before, but few can recall a time when its own minister and the Taoiseach gave it such a public tongue-lashing, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Department of Justice and Garda bosses have said overtime funding is available for December but gardaí confirmed a national ban on the practice has been in place since Tuesday and will run until Sunday.

The Taoiseach didn’t just misread the room — he wasn’t even in the same neighbourhoodas people of political experience, says Alison O’Connor.

The treatment of Maurice McCabe should have rung alarm bells for Frances Fitzgerald, says Michael Clifford.

The Ombudsman has been scathing of the Department of Justice over the Magdalene redress scheme and its ‘inexcusable’ treatment of survivors, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

The head of the Policing Authority is expected to stonewall any questions around the appointment of a new Garda Commissioner when she appears before an Oireachtas Committee today.

The Government is experiencing an “inability” to find accommodation to house people caught up in the mass migration crisis and providing them with the necessary services is emerging as a “very significant issue”.

A bitter nine-month behind the scenes row with the Department of Justice led the Ombudsman to launch an investigation into the “possible maladministration” of the Magdalene redress scheme.

The Department of Justice says it has been forced to close a Direct Provision centre in Limerick over health and safety concerns.

Ireland’s forensic science chief has warned the Government that the State faces the risk of “very large expense and untold reputational damage” from the collapse of a court case due to contamination of DNA samples caused by poor laboratory conditions.

Authorities cannot say they were unaware of the potential for catastrophe in forensic science as