Judges have told the Government they are struggling to get by on six-figure salaries.

THE details of the relationship between the Government and the judiciary may be getting more airtime than our judges might like.

An increasingly bitter dispute between judges and the Government has been defused after the Chief Justice Susan Denham secured agreement on a new mediation system.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said the row between the Government and the Judiciary is something that should not be conducted in public.

The Taoiseach is being called on to intervene to avert a full blown constitutional crisis arising out of a row between the Justice Minister Alan Shatter and the Judiciary.