Dublin City Council made use of unmanned drones to monitor predominantly working class areas of the capital ahead of the Halloween bonfire season, it has emerged.

An Garda Síochána has been including the public services card (PSC) as an identification option on Garda vetting forms used by businesses across the country, in apparent violation of social welfare law.

Ireland’s newest mobile phone network has removed the controversial Public Services Card as a requested form of identification after concerns were raised with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

The State could be facing multimillion euro payouts after it was found to have illegally retained the personal data of 3.2m people in the rollout of its Public Services Card (PSC).

The Data Protection Act should be changed to make social media platforms legally liable for failing to take down revenge porn images, an expert has said.