A campaign to criminalise men who pay for sex rather than prostitutes has hit the streets with an alarming billboard advert.

THE Government believes the prison overcrowding problem will begin to ease in the coming days as new spaces come on stream.

POLICING the Shell Corrib gas project has cost €12 million in Garda overtime in the past three years.

Politicians will this afternoon begin considering the most fundamental reform of Irish immigration legislation since the foundation of the State.

IN your editorial (Irish Examiner, January 18) you claim it was largely as a result of your three-part series on domestic violence that the Dáil Justice Committee held a hearing on this issue on January 17.

The gardaí were today urged to launch a massive crackdown on pyramid schemes which have cost Irish people millions of euro.

The Dáil Justice Committee has been hearing details of the Government's proposals to introduce anti-social behaviour orders.

THE €30m site purchased for the new Mountjoy prison will cost the taxpayer a further €8.5m to equip with water, gas and sewage services, it emerged last night.

The €30m site purchased for the new Mountjoy prison will cost the taxpayer another €8.5m to equip with water, gas and sewage services, it emerged today.

RUC reformers Chris Patten and Maurice Hayes should be recruited to review An Garda Síochána and devise an alternative to the proposed Garda Ombudsman, the Labour party said yesterday.

LEGISLATION will soon allow the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) target foreign crime bosses with assets in Ireland.

THE Oireachtas Justice Committee is to publish their plans for tackling gangland crime and reforming the criminal justice system by the end of the month.

A public inquiry into the worst atrocity to strike Ireland in the 20th century should be held in Britain, a Dáil committee urged today.

The Dáil Committee on Justice will announce this evening if there's to be a full public inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

Loyalist bombers who killed 34 people in Ireland may have had help from members of the British security forces, the Barron Report found tonight.

THE Government is pandering to the wishes of publicans by proposing changes to the jurisdiction of the Equality Tribunal, a coalition of 12 equality groups claims.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell is due before the Dáil Justice Committee today to answer questions about his plans to water down equality legislation.

EQUALITY groups opposed to the transfer of discrimination cases from the Equality Tribunal to the district court have warned the move could cause the Equal Status Act to collapse.

A special meeting of the Dail Justice Committee is to debate the recent Supreme Court judgement concerning Irish-born children of asylum seekers.

THE prospect of another long and expensive tribunal loomed this week after it appeared that Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne was allegedly to blame for the dramatic rise in crime last year.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday that the country faced a significant threat from international extremists and evidence suggests that the country has already been used as a base for international terrorism.

GARDA Commissioner Pat Byrne has reacted angrily to accusations his performance was not up to scratch.