GAA president John Horan has asked the newly formed fixtures review group to bring three proposals to Congress 2020 in a bid to resolve the Association’s calendar crisis.

An independent report into allegations that Air Corps inspectors were not qualified to sign off on repairs on the force’s aircraft has found there was “nothing of substance” to affect operations — despite “procedural and documentation deficiencies and errors”.

Hanging out with Elvis and The Beatles were just part of the fun for Ireland’s biggest showband, writes Ed Power

Bank chiefs will have their wages capped at half a million euro, it was announced today.

SENIOR executives and directors in all six banks under the Government’s guarantee scheme will have their pay cut and a cap placed on their salaries, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has said.

More alarming revelations have been made this morning about the spending of taxpayers' money by FÁS.

A FORMER tánaiste and a number of ex-ministers are on the Government panel from which the six major banks and building societies covered by the guarantee scheme are to select additional board members.

Health Minister Mary Harney has accepted a recommendation that GPs should be paid €290 per patient under the revamped over-70s medical-card scheme.

WOMEN faced with unplanned pregnancies worry most about their ability to continue in work and may opt for abortion on the strength of those fears.

THE report inquiring into the failure of officials within his office to inform Attorney General Rory Brady about the constitutional case on statutory rape was yesterday dismissed as a “political whitewash” by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny.

A probe into Government failures in the recent underage rape legislation controversy could be published tonight or tomorrow, the Taoiseach said today.

FINE GAEL and Labour have demanded an independent investigation into the Government’s handling of the statutory rape law crisis.

New controls have been put in place to prevent another political and legal crisis sparked by the Supreme Court’s surprise rejection of a 1935 statutory rape law.

CHARLIE McCREEVY is allowing less than four months to figure out a way to put his decentralisation into action.

The former General Secretary of IMPACT, Phil Flynn, will chair the Decentralisation Committee to oversee the transfer of 10,000 public service jobs from Dublin.

YOU can’t argue with success, but how the hell do you talk to failure? How do you face down over a century of submission, of abject failure?