An application by the State’s corporate watchdog to examine material on computers taken from the suicide counselling charity Console has been further adjourned at the High Court.

Low earners are having to wait more than a year to see a solicitor in some parts of the country because demand for free legal aid has almost doubled in recent years.

It is a revealing and shameful comment on austerity-mad Ireland that low earners have to wait more than a year to see a solicitor because the number of people seeking free legal aid has doubled during the Coalition’s harsh economic programme.

A NATIONAL audit of child sex abuse by priests is likely to be carried out following the findings of the Ferns Report, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said yesterday.

The Special Criminal Court today further adjourned an application by relatives of the Omagh bomb victims who are seeking documentation to help their £10m claim against five men in connection with the 1998 atrocity.