Nineteen members of staff made redundant by the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) last year shared €1.01m in redundancy payments.

Businessman Jim Kennedy and his company Jackson Way Properties (JWP) have lost a High Court challenge to a refusal to provide information about land in Carrickmines, south Dublin, which has been the subject of years of litigation.

Another message sent to them said: “It is … trending on Twitter and the comments are not exactly favourable! Just type in ‘Black and Tans’ in the search box and you’ll see what I mean.”

TDs and Senators have claimed over €37,000 buying top of the range phones over the past two years.

A GOVERNMENT department has defended paying €2.75m for an airport on the Aran Islands that had been valued at €600,000 in an independent report they commissioned.

A Council report has estimated that €14,000 in annual savings could be achieved by the measures.

The Public Services Card is in breach of several aspects of data-protection law, according to the state's watchdog.

The Information Commissioner has revealed his office is carrying out an investigation into some public bodies’ compliance with Freedom of Information (FoI) request deadlines, amid concerns over “unacceptable” delays.

RTÉ has spent over €2.38 million on its new Fair City set, new figures show.

The HSE is failing both the living and the dead in the South East says the PRO for Health Equality, Matt Shanahan.

It has cost the State over an estimated €220,000 (incl VAT) in lawyers' fees from the collapsed trial of Patrick Hutch for the murder of David Byrne.

In the chronicles of CervicalCheck, April 25, 2018 will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

Prison officers made more than 1,100 drug seizures in Irish prisons last year as part of ongoing efforts to clamp down on contraband.

The Defence Forces was worried about commemorative videos for its work being ‘politicised’ after being told it had to include a logo for the Government of Ireland.

Tusla has raised concerns about a further 748 adoption cases from St Patrick’s Guild which contain evidence of names being changed, cash payments and other “irregularities”.

The Taoiseach has said Independent TDs Michael Lowry and Sean Canney have no written deals with the Government but do have access when needed.

A planning decision on a proposal to build a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour is due by Friday, almost two years behind schedule.

Last year was the “worst year on record” for public bodies failing to make a decision in time on freedom of information (FoI) requests.

The Government only signed off on a €473,000 pension deal for the ex-boss of Irish Water after consulting with the Attorney General.

Bargain-hunting politicians and their staff can book five-star hotels if they can prove the overnight rate is similar to a lower standard hotel, according to the latest travel policy from Leinster House.

Seven HSE staff travelled to the US, to Kansas, at a cost of €19,000. The trip was to attend a conference at which two of them made a presentation.

The University of Limerick (UL) spent €133,300 on two reports, which it has refused to publish, in relation to matters raised in its dealing with whistleblower controversies.

An expenses loophole which allowed cabinet ministers to claim an extra €2,000 a year in tax-free mileage has been closed by the government.

Eoin English reports on the latest developments from the Cork council merger plan.

The Department of Education allegedly blocked seven separate attempts by officials from schools affected by the fire safety scandal to access inspection reports into the facilities between 2015 and this year.

The Department of Education allegedly blocked seven separate attempts by officials from schools affected by the fire safety scandal to access inspection reports into the facilities between 2015 and this year.

The HSE has spent almost €300,000 over the past three years on burial expenses on patients who died in its care.

The HSE has spent almost €300,000 over the past three years on burial expenses on patients who died in its care.

Residents claim issues around timber-frame homes not addressed.

Cork Institute of Technology has confirmed it had eight complaints relating to issues such as bullying and harassment over a three-year period, having earlier said there were none.

Previously unseen details of a medical trial by Glaxo in 1974 at a Cork mother and baby home have generated a whole new series of questions for the nuns and the companies involved, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

Legal fees paid out by the Central Bank last year increased by 12% to just over €7.3m.

One student was expelled from Dundalk Institute of Technology due to alleged disorderly conduct and sexual harassment against a staff member.

RTÉ last year spent almost €50,000 putting up celebs and other guests in luxury Dublin hotels appearing on The Late Late Show and The Ray D’Arcy Show.

The CUH terrain is unsuited to trolley transfer, says Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.

Ambulances, including units based at stations in Fermoy, Macroom, and Youghal, were summoned 33 times last year to transfer patients just 800m across campus at Cork University Hospital (CUH), according to a log of ambulance callouts obtained under FOI requests.