The distraught mother of Gary Douch, brutally killed in a preventable tragedy in Mountjoy Prison, has slammed the Department of Justice for failing to pay the barrister who conducted the inquiry into her son’s death for almost four years.

Cork solicitor Sinead McNamara has become the first female county sheriff in Ireland.

It would be shameful if this country was responsible for blocking the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Disabled, which already has the support of the other 14 member states of the EU.