PAC members want more details on pay scales

A banking inquiry is now expected to be up and running by May, before the local and European elections.

The Garda Commissioner will reveal to the Public Accounts Committee today which garda allowances, if any, the force is willing to give up.

The State's spending watchdog has exposed serious irregularities in the company accounts of Dublin's Beaumont hospital.

Tony Holland , chairman of the Parades Commission in Northern Ireland has been awarded a knighthood in the British Birthday Honours today.

THE €3.5 billion tax shortfall in the past two years was blamed on the economic downturn by Charlie McCreevy’s top civil servant yesterday.

FORMER Fine Gael deputy leader Jim Mitchell lost his three-year battle with cancer yesterday morning when he died in Dublin.

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent has said Jim Mitchell, who died last night after a long illness, had cleaned up the way in which corporate Ireland now does business, in standing up to enormous pressure and vested interests during the DIRT Inquiry.

Fine Gael says the latest confusion surrounding the publication of the report on Campus Stadium Ireland is a stalling tactic.