A top law firm has launched an investigation into a bogus memo that claims to have come from the company advising the public on paying the household charge.

DOES anyone else share my sense of irony that former US president Bill Clinton can claim – within the space of a couple of hours – that the “enormous, staggering amount of inequality within and between countries” is one of the biggest threats facing humanity and then sit down to dinner with 575 of the elite, each of whom paid €2,500 for the privilege?

A second one-day strike by 250,000 public sector workers was called off tonight as Government and unions edged closer to agreeing €1.3bn pay cuts.

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe braved the anger of primary teachers over education cutbacks and their falling pay packets as he asked them to bear the pain for the sake of Irish children’s future.