THE coalition parties were accused of looking after their own “party hacks” by appointing supporters to highly paid Government positions.

FINE GAEL has been accused of Fianna Fáil-style political cronyism after details emerged of how Taoiseach Enda Kenny sanctioned a €35,000 pay rise for a key party handler in breach of the Government’s own self-imposed limits on salaries for special advisers.

A SERIES of embarrassing expenditure revelations over the weekend has undermined the credibility of the Government as it prepares to deliver its budget.

ADOBE is pulling its Flash software for web video and games from the browsers of mobile devices, though Flash will still work on mobile apps and on the web browsers of regular computers.

ENDA Kenny has defended the appointment of special advisers on six-figure salaries that exceed guidelines set down by his own administration.

Here is the full list of winners from the second annual Irish Film and Television Awards, which were held in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.