Minister for Justice Michael McDowell today announced that a Commission of Investigation is to be established into the death of Gary Douch, who died following an attack on him while he was a prisoner in Mountjoy prison on August 1, 2006.

€1m has been earmarked for projects supporting the Traveller community.

THE penalty points system is a shambles. That’s the only conclusion to be drawn from an analysis carried out by the Public Accounts Committee which found that nearly half the photographs taken by garda speed cameras last year were useless.