The ceremonies take place at the Gleneagle Hotel Convention Centre which is now the venue for the foreseeable future for the conferring ceremonies.

Workers at the company that operates Ireland’s speed camera network say they have “no option” but to strike next week.

Up to 35 staff who work for a speed-camera operator have voted to go on strike.

The gardaí announced restructuring plans today which detail improvements to its structures, processes, services and governance.

Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan has announced the allocation of €300,000 in funding to social enterprises providing employment opportunities for people with a criminal past.

Open letter to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Charlie Flanagan, Minister for Justice and Equality:

Up to 60,000 parents a year are to gain new paid parental leave and benefit from November.

Gardaí have arrested two men and a woman and seized a number of firearms, ammunition and drugs in an operation in Dublin this morning.

The High Court has rejected a Pakistani man's challenge to a refusal to grant him a right of residence here on the basis that he was dependant on his sister-in-law, who is an EU citizen living here.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is open to holding a public inquiry into claims that repeated Garda failures to arrest a Lithuanian man who later killed an Irish man in a hit-and-run have been covered up.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan resisted calls to withdraw the judicial appointments bill amid fury and chaos in the Dáil.

An illicit commercial cigarette factory in Jenkinstown, Co Louth was shut down by Gardaí this morning.

Mark Toland has taken up his appointment as Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate, it was confirmed today.

Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin has apologised to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for misleading it over the release of a report into the controvesial re-opening of Stepaside Garda Station.

The amendments will confine the sale of intoxicating liquor to visitors who have participated in and completed a tour of the premises concerned.

A lawyer for a construction company director, wanted in the UK over his role in a £5 million (about €5.8 million) tax fraud, has argued that 'Brexit' leaves his client in a “legal limbo”.

The Government plans to drive through legislation for the new judicial appointments system and does not expect to make any amendments despite calls for changes from top judges and opposition parties.

The senior management of An Garda Síochána has been described as a “toxic shambles” in the Dáil.

The body of 'Disappeared' victim Seamus Ruddy has been found in France.

A culture shift is needed to make the very idea of paying for sexual access to another person’s body unthinkable and will require strong leadership from Government down, writes Liz Kelly

Here's your evening update.

A Dutch man arrested in Dublin during a garda swoop on an alleged Kinahan gang property has had his surrender to Dutch authorities ordered by the High Court.

One of the whistleblowers at the centre of the latest Garda scandal has said he has strong reservations about any judge-led inquiry, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

The European Union has agreed to "considerably strengthen" means for the 28 nations to co-operate to combat violent extremism, officials said.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has launched a civil action against former minister for justice Alan Shatter for disclosing private information about him on RTÉ’s Prime Time.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has launched a civil action against former Minister for Justice Alan Shatter for disclosing private information about him on RTE’s Prime Time.

The husband of an Irish woman murdered in Australia two years ago said a new all-Ireland campaign on prostitution and sex trafficking could be a “turning point” in how the sex trade is addressed.

The Government has been accused of letting former justice minister Alan Shatter "muzzle" a Dáil debate about a statutory inquiry into alleged Garda malpractice through legal threats.

The Garda Commissioner says the force will never give up in the search for any missing person.

Civil servants in charge of the country’s policing and justice system have a closed, secretive and “silo driven” culture, a hard-hitting review has revealed.

Ireland will be examined on its record on civil and political rights at the UN Human Rights Committee hearing in Geneva this morning.

In statements reported in your newspaper (June 23), Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald, lacks understanding of the asylum processes.

The cost of meeting judicial reviews taken by asylum seekers and other legal costs totalled €5.8 million last year — and was paid by the State’s Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS).