A judge has taken another swipe at lawyers who, he said, with the ongoing approval of successive governments, continue to refuse to settle garda compensation claims before they get to court.

Donegal-town-based Garda Joanne Doherty said she would never forget the night she and Robbie McCallion were investigating a car theft when he was run down by a driver attempting to escape the scene.

Health Minister Simon Harris received a stinging rebuke from one of his most senior Cabinet colleagues over applications to increase the supplementary, or overrun, health budget for 2020, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

There will be 36 hospitals impacted by strike action by some 17,000 support workers who are in dispute with their employer over a jjob evaluation scheme.

The senior civil servant on the board of the National Children's Hospital has told the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee that he did nothing wrong by not telling cabinet ministers about the cost overruns associated with the project.

Work on a vital flood-prevention scheme has been delayed again and construction on it may not start for another year.

The Taoiseach has said he has total confidence in Health Minister Simon Harris.

A Government-backed blueprint for Garda reform is on hold after local garda management launched their first ever industrial action.

A salary package of up to €250,000 for the next Garda commissioner could go to someone with no policing experience, the justice minister has said.

Three gardaí were receiving such a vicious beating from associates of a Dublin criminal gang that a detective was forced to extricate them at gunpoint and arrest their assailants, the High Court has heard.

A garda sergeant injured during an incident with a member of the McBrearty family from Donegal has been awarded more than €55,000 in compensation by the High Court.

A long-awaited Public Sector Pay Commission report recommending continued restoration of pay is to be brought to Cabinet today.

Higher civil and public servants are demanding accelerated restoration of pay after claiming they earn up to 60% less than their private sector counterparts.

A report looking into how a teenage girl with intellectual disabilities was left in a foster home after sexual abuse allegations were made against a carer is due before cabinet today.

Just one of 35 primary health care centres announced by the Government to great fanfare almost five years ago is operational, it has emerged.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s closest allies within Cabinet face being wiped out once he leaves office, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

The Health Minister, Simon Harris, has said the last thing the health service needs is industrial action.

Nurses are to take industrial action next month after talks with the HSE and Department of Health over

Cuts to existing services will have to be made by ministers if they want to pay for new spending plans next year, they have been warned, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

A further €2.65bn is being made available for capital spending by the Government.

Government has come under sustained pressure to explain the €120m black hole which will have to be filled to deliver public sector wage increases.

Ireland is to receive around €200m with which to build social housing next year from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

The work of the Public Service Pay Commission will not be brought forward, despite growing calls for a new public sector deal early in the new year.

Update 6.46pm: The Government has expressed its willingness to talk to hospital doctors in an effort to avoid industrial action.

Discussions on a fresh pay deal for public sector workers could begin by the middle of next year, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has indicated to the Dáil.

Ireland’s public servants are due a break. The question, I guess, is: ‘how is it to be engineered?’ asks Fergus Finlay

The Government has defended salary hikes for TDs amid Budget 2017 reforms which offered most people €5 extra a week.

Today we will witness the county’s first opposition budget.

Former politicians owe the State €42,300 as a result of overpayments to pensions.

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe has said Government cannot increase Garda wages as all other public sector workers would then expect the same, writes Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A €3 billion wishlist submitted by ministers is to be dramatically cut in the coming days as no additional funding will be available in the upcoming budget.

Approximately 25,000 new houses will be built every year between now and 2020, according to the Government’s housing action plan.