Costs associated with the receivership of flagship assets owned by independent TD Mick Wallace’s main construction firm, M&J Wallace now top €420,000.

A SHORTAGE of specialist staff has created an “unsustainable degree of risk” in the policing of Irish Aid’s €671m budget.

CLAIMS that staff have resigned in protest at alleged bullying at the Marino Institute of Education (MIE) teacher training college in Dublin have been rejected by the interim director.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern recently declared that this country was unlikely to be a target of a major terrorist strike, a sentiment which possibly did not give comfort to everybody.