Child sex abuse victims should be allowed to seek compensation from those found in possession of online images of that abuse, children’s charities have said.

Child sex abuse victims should be allowed to seek compensation from those found in possession of online images of that abuse, children’s charities in the UK have said.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has firmly rejected criticisms of the process used by the Government to appoint Revenue boss Josephine Feehily as the chairwoman of the new Policing Authority.

The Garda informant intelligence system has "limited, if any, credibility" with the majority of detectives and senior gardaí, according to the Garda Inspectorate.

As part of the ‘Irish Examiner’s third day of analysis on the Garda Inspectorate report, Cormac O’Keeffe uncovers the crisis in the force’s informant handling system

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has rejected accusations that informants were being run “off-book” outside the official system.

Garda chief Martin Callinan has warned there could be mass assassinations if the force’s watchdog was given unfettered access to classified records.

The Garda system for handling informants may be in breach of European laws and legislation is needed to regulate it, a legal expert has warned.

It’s a bit like the closet with the proverbial skeletons. It has creaked open, but only slightly, just enough for a few limbs to spill out. Inside is still shrouded in darkness.

The Garda Ombudsman has called for “intrusive and independent” oversight of the Garda system for handling informants in a special report to the justice minister.

Eight years ago this month, the then Garda commissioner Noel Conroy announced details of the new system to handle informants in the wake of the scathing criticism of the Morris Tribunal reports into abuses among the force in Donegal.

An explosive report into alleged collusion between gardaí and a convicted drugs trafficker will be completed in the coming weeks.

The landlord of murdered Joanna Yeates remained in custody this morning after British police were granted more time to question him about her death.

Detectives in Britain were tonight granted more time to continue questioning Joanna Yeates’s landlord on suspicion of her murder.

THE system for handling garda informants is to be overhauled this year under a major new initiative.