The ‘Irish Examiner’ reported this week on the proposed options for a more liberalised, health-based approach to dealing with people caught with small amounts of drugs.

PUBLIC disciplinary tribunals into three bankers linked to Anglo Irish Bank have been adjourned over concerns they could prejudice any future criminal proceedings.

A CIRCUIT court has put the brakes on motorists who escaped bigger fines and the risk of more penalty points by claiming they didn’t get mailed a fixed penalty notice for speeding.

THE Labour Party yesterday tagged Michael McDowell a lame-duck justice minister who has lost his authority.

The director of Public Prosecutions has made an unprecedented decision to prosecute a sitting circuit court judge arising out of a major garda investigation into child pornography.