Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims are to seek a meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward in a bid to have the report’s new publication date brought forward to avoid the run-up to an announcement for next year‘s General Election.

The Government was yesterday accused of attempting to ‘‘steamroll’’ significant changes to the criminal justice system without adequate time for debate.

Time may have run out for the present Government to debate the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, families of the victims said today.

The Dáil and Seanad are due to formally resume today after their lengthy Christmas break.

The sale of important historical documents to the highest bidder should be outlawed, it was claimed today.

THE author of the Government's report into illegal nursing home payments will be quizzed today on why his investigation did not focus more on the role played by former Health Minister Micheál Martin.

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney is seeking to reduce the compensation bill for illegal nursing home charges by offering repayments only to those affected within the last six years.

The Government has confirmed that the referendum on Irish Citizenship will take place on June 11.

The Dail resumes today after the Easter recess.

FORMER civil servant John McQuaid, a member of the team that selected the winner of the State’s second mobile phone licence competition nearly eight years ago, told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday there was “a fairly hard argument” on whether more time was needed to improve the draft evaluation report two days before the result was made public.

The Dáil returns after the Easter recess today, but only for a matter of days.

The Stormont assembly's Easter recess will be interrupted next week for a