It's seen as a boys' club where men in suits make profound decisions impacting disproportionately on women and children. In fact, Nphet is one of the only pandemic taskforces in the world with gender parity. Niamh Griffin meets the women behind the acronym

The system of social welfare inspection leaves mothers in receipt of single-parent payments vulnerable to abuse of power, with unannounced visits and searches of personal possessions, writes Political Correspondent Aoife Moore