A major reorganisation of the Social Security Office network in the North will not mean job losses, it was insisted today.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday accused lawyers for the Mahon Tribunal of trying “to set me up and stitch me up”.

THE courts face chaos after the country’s 32 State solicitors yesterday withdrew from District Court work over money they claim is owed them by the State.

A Co Antrim woman was today given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to repay £21,000 (€31,000) in fraudulently claimed British government benefits.

A law introduced to strip master criminals of their ill-gotten gains was used today against a housewife convicted of benefit fraud.