New legislation could be passed to direct Gardaí to appear before the Kingsmill inquest into an IRA massacre, a lawyer has said.

Requests for more information about the Kingsmill massacre in South Armagh have fallen on deaf ears in the Republic, a lawyer alleged.

Senior staff in a number of the country’s hospitals have been accused of taking expensive gifts and holidays from a surgical supplies company in breach of the rules of their employment.

A former organist pleaded guilty today to swindling nearly £150,000 (€221,000) from her church and the bank where she worked.

Galway hand debuts to Alan Kane and Ciarán Fitzgerald for Saturday