Acting garda chief won’t seek top post.

Acting garda chief won’t seek top post

The senior leadership of An Garda Síochána meets this morning for what has been described as a crucial bid to “steady the ship”.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan was accused of “filibustering” and “damaging confidence” in the organisation when quizzed over whether or not the Garda review into the Jobstown incident would examine allegations of gardaí giving inaccurate evidence in the criminal trial.

The Garda Ombudsman has confirmed it has not received any complaints in relation to garda behaviour at the Jobstown protest trial.

Leo Varadkar has made a significant intervention in the fallout from the Jobstown trial and urged Garda management to examine the investigation including any conflicting evidence.

The Policing Authority is implementing a key part in the reform of An Garda Síochána as it oversees the appointment of gardaí to key management positions.

Tipperary football board chairman Joe Hannigan has suggested that winning an All-Ireland senior title by 2020 is “no longer a pipe dream” and “fast becoming a reality.”

Tipperary’s footballers may be losing captain Peter Acheson to Dubai but Conor Sweeney believes their achievements this summer can act as a magnet for some of those lost to the panel this season.

Tipperary football chairman Joe Hannigan, who claimed the county were aiming to win an All-Ireland senior title by 2020, has revealed the inspiration behind the goal.

Gangland outrages reached terrifying new heights yesterday when four armed men — two dressed as gardaí and one dressed as a woman — shot dead one man and seriously injured two others at a Dublin hotel, in front of adults and children.

Tipperary football board chairman Joe Hannigan has insisted that the appointment of the county’s next senior manager will be a “statement of intent”.

In day four of our special report on rural Ireland we visit Ballydehob, Co. Cork. From Danno to fests, this village has history, writes Michael Clifford

Students at University College Cork want assurances that library and other services will not be hit by a strike during exams next week.

More than 1,500 support staff in six of Dublin’s largest hospitals have voted in favour of strike action which will be activated if any attempt is made to change their rosters without agreement, or reduce their pay with the introduction of interns.

The Irish Medical Organisation is accusing the HSE of not being serious about tackling the recruitment crisis for consultants.

Up to 81 officials may have legal right to payment

HSE plans to save money by filling key hospital roles with interns and graduate nurses is putting budgets before patients’ lives.

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The Garda fraud squad could be called in to investigate breaches of company law at the Central Remedial Clinic following fresh revelations about payments to its former chief executive using charity funds.

“I don’t think I have ever been at a meeting where the emotions are such that we are actually angered and saddened. What we are hearing is how a noble concept, the Friends and Supporters group was turned into the Directors and Friends group.”

The Government’s spending watchdog has demanded more than an apology from the former chiefs of scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic (CRC).

Tipperary GAA chairman Sean Nugent has accused the Gaelic Players Association of hampering his county’s fundraising initiatives in the USA.

Tipperary GAA officials slashed expenditure by over €1m in the last 12 months.

It has emerged that the Central Remedial Clinic pays over half a million euro each year to the Mater Hospital to administer a pension fund that does not exist.

Fresh enquiries are under way into suspected top-up payments at another four state-funded bodies as the investigation into bonuses for senior managers at voluntary hospitals and agencies is set to widen.

HSE management has been warned it faces “confrontation” over plans to withdraw the option for staff to take a pay cut in order to maintain their pre-Haddington Road agreement working hours.

The troika has ended its final review of the economy but wants the Government to address the repeated budget overruns in the health service.

Ireland’s shambolic health service has been compared by embattled Health Minister Dr James Reilly to a massive tanker that can’t be turned around overnight.

Fines of up to €650,000 will be imposed on hospitals that breach rules limiting the hours a junior doctor can work under proposals designed to end a long- standing row over excessive working hours.

Talks aimed at averting further strikes by junior doctors over excessively long shifts will resume in Dublin this morning.

Junior doctors will not call off tomorrow’s strike action unless the HSE details how it will “sanction” hospitals which force medics to work excessively long hours.

Junior doctors have resumed plans for strike action likely to cause widespread disruption in public hospitals after the breakdown of talks with employers over excessive working hours.

Young nurses whose two-year contracts come to an end may be forced to accept a de facto 15% pay cut if they want “to continue in employment”.

Families living in terror of drug dealers because of debts owed by their children are being urged to use a new confidential system without fear of repercussions.

The State will not seek a retrial in the case of a Louth man who had one of his two convictions for IRA membership quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal last year.

One of the country’s largest hospitals will be forced to cope with an “unprecedented” drop in key emergency department staff from next month because of a chronic manpower crisis.

The HSE has received thousands of applications from frontline staff for its three-year career break scheme, raising speculation management will have to turn down a number of applications in order to protect vital services.

Hospital budget plans have been thrown into turmoil before they are even finalised after nurses won a major battle against a “low-paid sham” “yellow-pack” graduate scheme.

Nursing graduates who worked in HSE hospitals last year as part of their final clinical placement will have to reapply for jobs they were contracted to do but that now come with a 20% salary reduction.

Nursing unions say the HSE initiative to hire 1,000 graduate nurses at 80% of previous salaries is a cheap labour scam.

Almost 60 of the country’s best paid doctors are receiving an extra €43,000 each a year in allowances from the cash-strapped health service to take up largely administrative hospital roles.

The HSE has repeated its warning that consultants who refuse to take part in work condition negotiations could face unilateral pay cuts.