A senior HSE official who has been on gardening leave for the past 18 months due to a multimillion-euro conflict of interest probe is still receiving his full €138,000 salary.

THE HSE’s national ICT director, who oversees a €100 million annual information technology development budget, has been placed on administrative leave over claims of a conflict of interest involving private firms.

MAYO and Fermanagh were football opponents in Croke Park yesterday, but it was different at the weekend Limerick Show where interests from both counties combined to bring off a spectacular all-island final success in horse showing.