An intelligence sharing regime between UK and US security services was unlawful, a surveillance watchdog has ruled.

TARA Mines has won a Supreme Court order allowing it exclude up to 80 disabled former miners with the company from certain substantial pension benefits made available to existing employees.

THE High Court has cleared the way for a former Waterford Crystal worker, who has alleged fraud by the company in the operation of its pension scheme in the 1990s, to proceed with claims that the Irish Pensions Trust fraudulently concealed his entitlement to seek a deferred pension when he was made redundant.

Raymond McKenna of KPMG People Strategies has said that approximately 237,000 Irish people with defined contribution pension schemes are sitting on a potential pensions time bomb and largely unaware of it.