THE taxpayer bill for witnesses and their legal costs at the Mahon Tribunal continues to mount – a year and a half after the planning corruption inquiry stopped hearing evidence.

THE taxpayer bill for witnesses and their legal costs at the Mahon Tribunal continues to mount – a year and a half after the planning corruption inquiry stopped hearing evidence.

The trial of a 55-year-old solicitor accused of being in possession of child pornography has continued in legal argument, in the absence of the jury, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that a solicitor viewed child pornography images on his computer before he deleted them from a temporary internet folder.