GARDAÍ are investigating a Tipperary community development project involving Minister Martin Mansergh’s state driver which was found to have paid out €60,000 to false invoices.

THERE are about 6,100 voluntary and community ‘charitable’ organisations in Ireland.

Inner-city Dublin continues to suffer large-scale, acute poverty, despite the economic progress made over the past 15 years, according to a report published today.

The Government was urged today to scrap its new childcare funding scheme after a report found it threatens services to disadvantaged children.

PRINCIPALS countrywide are turning to cash-strapped charities in a desperate bid to obtain funding for students’ psychological assessments, the Irish Examiner has learnt.