The Government is set to reject EU plans to scrap the daylight saving time system amid fears that having two time zones on the island of Ireland could cause post-Brexit chaos.

Everyone who suffered abuse in a defective school system should now be paid the compensation they are entitled to under human rights law, writes Conor O’Mahony.

While an apology issued to abuse survivors has been cautiously welcomed, survivors have now called on the Government to expedite access to the redress they are legally entitled to.

A review of a redress scheme set up for victims of child sexual abuse following a landmark 2014 judgement has found that the State imposed an illogical and unfair requirement on victims seeking compensation.

Abuse survivor Louise O’Keeffe has accused the State of trying to renege on its responsibilities to people who were sexually abused as children in schools after it emerged that a Government compensation scheme set up four years ago has paid nothing to survivors.

The Psychological Society of Ireland has firmly come out in favour of repealing the Eighth Amendment and has published two papers which it says counters “false facts that are not based on scientific research”.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has defended the Government’s interpretation of the European court ruling in the Louise O’Keeffe case following a query from a former High Court judge about a related compensation scheme.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has sent a response to a former High Court judge’s request for a justification of the Government’s controversial interpretation of a European ruling in the Louise O’Keeffe school sex abuse case.

A further 50 members of the legal profession in Ireland have added their names to a statement calling for a no vote in the upcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

Half of all patients who are detained in the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) have been charged with, or convicted of, murder.

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan has rejected accounts of a meeting where it was claimed he told a Fianna Fáil TD that whistleblower Maurice McCabe was not to be trusted, documents reveal.

From January 2006 to present, we look back at the key moments in the Maurice McCabe whistleblower crisis.

The Taoiseach is standing by Nóirín O’Sullivan, saying there has been no finding of wrongdoing against her, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan will not be forced to stand aside while a commission of investigation into an alleged smear campaign against Garda whistleblowers proceeds.

The Department of Justice has refused to say if Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will ask Garda Commissioner Nóirín O Sullivan to step aside if a State inquiry is opened into claims senior management tried to discredit whistleblowers.

The Government will “make a mockery” of Garda whistleblowers if it allows Nóirín O’Sullivan to remain in power while a commission of investigation into claims senior management attempted to discredit them takes place.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said she has no knowledge of a so-called smear campaign against a whistleblower in her force.

“In an article published on page 16 of the Irish Examiner on December 9, 2016 the following sentence was included: ‘In the course of the mishandling of Maurice McCabe’s complaints, a Garda Commissioner and a Minister for Justice had to resign’. 

Fine Gael have seen a minister and commissioner resign on its watch. Is that why it’s so disinclined to get to the bottom of the Garda whistleblower scandal, asks Michael Clifford

Former justice minister Alan Shatter has launched a blistering attack on his former party and government colleague Taoiseach Enda Kenny, for “ignoring concerns” over the report which forced his resignation from Cabinet.

The High Court judge tasked with investigating claims of a campaign to destroy a garda whistleblower has not yet spoken to the alleged victim, the Dáil heard.

The review into the alleged mistreatment of garda whistleblowers could be widened into a full-blown inquiry, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald’s office has said.

The Government last night announced a judge-led inquiry into allegations by two senior that Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan knew of a campaign by senior officers to “destroy” a whistleblower.

Lack of a speedy interim report into the IBRC controversy will lead to a major credibility gap for the investigation into goings-on at the bank, opposition leaders have warned.

The Government has set up an independent probe into all IBRC deals between 2009 and 2013 — with a particular focus on preferential interest rates and “unusual” share trading of companies it subsequently sold — after finally admitting the existing KPMG review is flawed.

Arrogance, a culture of ignoring damage done to the country, and a desire not to be answerable to anyone all existed in IBRC, a top official in the Department of Finance has claimed.

Government moves to appoint a former High Court judge to oversee the Siteserv probe prove the wrong people are carrying out the investigation, opposition TDs have warned.

A special needs assistant has been awarded €255,000 by the High Court for bullying and harassment by the school she worked in.

The High Court has dismissed as “devoid of any foundation in fact” a woman’s claim she was sexually assaulted by a garda in his patrol car 13 years ago.

A retired garda who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman in his patrol car 13 years ago says he did not think to obtain his phone records for the time to help establish an alibi which showed he was at home on a meal break when the incident occurred.

The Garda Commissioner has consented to a High Court declaration that a delay of more than two years in investigating a council worker’s complaint against a garda breached the man’s rights to fair procedures and prompt decision.

A man has been awarded €315,000 damages at the High Court over being “systematically” sexually abused by a former Marist Brother over three years while a pupil at St John’s National School, Sligo.

An action by the Hickey pharmacy group and its owner Patrick Hickey aimed at preventing their loans, valued at up to €45m, being included in a portfolio of €900m loans offered for sale by the liquidators of IBRC, has been withdrawn on confidential terms at the High Court.

A bartender who was injured by a bottle after closing time on St Patrick’s Day has lost her claim for damages against the Dublin pub where she worked.

A former prisoner who sued the State over an incident in which he was slashed in the face and body in an unprovoked attack by an fellow inmate 10 years ago has been awarded €150,000 in damages.

A prisoner viciously attacked by another inmate at Wheatfield Prison has been awarded damages of €150,000.

A 19-year-old student was left paralysed for over a year after a back operation, and yesterday launched a High Court action for damages.

A woman who sued her partner’s parents after she lost an eye in a horrific domestic accident has had her action dismissed by a High Court judge.

Two women — one who campaigned for a no vote and the other who voted yes — have started a legal challenge aimed at overturning the result of the children’s referendum.

A former director at a notorious care home where elderly residents suffered severe abuse has been struck off the nursing register.

The Sun has been refused a High Court stay allowing it to challenge a judgment granting Louis Walsh discovery of documents in his defamation claim against the newspaper.