Many ministerial advisers have seen their salaries increase to reward them for their first year in the job.

James Reilly, the health minister, has been accused of hypocrisy after appointing yet another expert on a €164,000-a-year contract to tackle the waiting list and trolley count crisis.

FOR all the giddiness in the Fine Gael camp, there has been only one constant in Dublin South since it was constituted in 1981 – a Brennan seat.

THE Labour Party yesterday promised to make physical education a Leaving Certificate subject carrying third-level points.

IF YOU haven’t heard of Portia Simpson-Miller, that’s your loss. She was elected this week as the first female prime minister of Jamaica.