With the Cabinet reshuffled, the Government can focus on the radical reform of what it called "an outdated system of administration".

THE Green Party has browbeaten a key concession from Fianna Fáil earning the right to nominate a former councillor as one of two new senators.

A six-year-old permanently brain damaged boy is to receive €4.5 million plus legal costs in settlement of his marathon legal action against the National Maternity Hospital alleging negligence in the management of his birth. The hospital also faces a total legal bill of an estimated €4m.

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A councillor is to make a formal complaint after a senior official threw a journalist out of a council meeting in Galway.