Enda Kenny listed the key findings of the Fennelly Report in the Dáil yesterday but questions remain about the whole affair, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Fianna Fáil has called on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to immediately publish the long-awaited independent investigation into the controversial departure of ex-garda commissioner Martin Callinan due to the “serious nature of the issues involved”.

The trade association representing the freight and logistics industry has confirmed that it will file a complaint with the Ombudsman over the country’s new postcode system.

Greed was behind a fraud by one of Ireland’s biggest cattle exporters which saw diseased cattle delivered to Morocco.

The ‘exiting’ of top civil servants must stop, writes Political Reporter Juno McEnroe

A former head of the Garda Traffic Bureau, whose review of the penalty points system six years ago was "shelved", has said the worst driving offenders are escaping sanction.

Department of Justice secretary general Brian Purcell faces being quizzed by TDs this week over the mishandling of claims of misconduct against gardaí and the controversial resignation of the Garda commissioner.

Ireland continues to operate one of the most restrictive asylum regimes in Europe with just 10% of applicants last year being granted permission to stay.

There is much greater potential for domestic insurance and pension funds to invest in the Irish economy in an effort to help the overall recovery, Department of Finance secretary general John Moran told the Irish Life pensions conference.

Fifty-eight pilot whales died after they were washed onto an isolated beach in northern New Zealand.

THE top civil servant in the Department of Finance has admitted the key ministry lacks sufficient in-house expertise to cope with all the issues arising out of the economic crisis.

THE Fás scandal descended to a new level of farce last night as Taoiseach Brian Cowen flatly contradicted evidence given to a Dáil committee and insisted Rody Molloy had not threatened legal action in order to secure his massive pay-off.

THE Irish Greyhound Board will announce the successor to former chief executive Aidan Tynan in the next fortnight, The Irish Examiner has learned.

The state should have bought a controversial site for Mountjoy Jail in a more business-like manner, the Dáil’s spending watchdog heard today.

Jim Morahan

BUGS in the penalty points computer system resulted in thousands of motoring offences cases being dropped as the time limit for prosecutions to be taken had expired.

DRIVERS caught by speed cameras still have a more than two-out-of-five chance of getting away with their offence, according to latest figures from the Department of Justice.

TWO Government departments were criticised yesterday by the State financial watchdog for failing properly to manage the Cork School of Music project.

THE litany of public sector computer systems running way over budget and proving inadequate to the job required was lashed by the taxpayers’ watchdog yesterday.

THE final bill for the compensation of abuse victims in religious institutions could hit €1 billion, the taxpayer’s watchdog confirmed yesterday.

THE €3.5 billion tax shortfall in the past two years was blamed on the economic downturn by Charlie McCreevy’s top civil servant yesterday.

A SENIOR civil servant who headed the project team that vetted applicants for the country’s second mobile telephone licence could shed no light for the tribunal yesterday on how an executive linked to Esat Digifone’s successful bid received a copy of top-level EU correspondence.

DOCTORS threatened to go on strike yesterday and withdraw from the free medical card scheme if they are forced to refund €20m paid to them for treating "ghost patients."