Taxpayer-funded charities will be ordered to reveal their full salary details and where the money comes from as part of a fresh probe into the sector.

Negligence claims cost the HSE a massive €81m in taxpayers’ money last year — with €32m going on legal fees for those defending the state organisation.

THE Department of Defence has ordered an environmental air and soil analysis at the site of the naval base in Haulbowline in Cork harbour to investigate if there’s any threat to sailors from hazardous waste buried in the area.