The legal firm established by former justice minister Alan Shatter has received more than €660,000 in fees from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency (CFA), to date this year.

The European Court of Justice will tomorrow issue a decision which could secure €2.6m in pension entitlements for 10 former Waterford Crystal workers — and many millions more for thousands of other Irish workers.

I REFER to your excellent feature article (Irish Examiner July, 18 on the problems that arise when trying to devise a fair and equitable system of compensating babies and their families injured due to negligence at birth.