Senior civil servants are to face calls to appear again before an Oireachtas committee after a second organisation seemed to distance itself from suggestions that it was “satisfied” with privacy provisions of the postcode to be launched this year.

A digital rights advocacy group has echoed the Data Protection Commissioner’s privacy concerns about the new postcode and has warned Communications Minister Alex White that his department is "taking a dangerous and needless step into the unknown" with the €27m Eircode project.

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her 11-year-old daughter in 2012.

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her daughter in Co. Offaly.

The controversial €27m postcode system, due to be introduced next year, has been described by officials in the Department of Communications as a "world-beating" solution to Ireland’s address problems.

A pig farmer who ordered two repossession men to strip naked and get into a pen with an “agitated” boar has been jailed.

A District Court judge has said it is "high time" that those who spend their social welfare payments on alcohol and drugs should receive vouchers instead of cash.

I REFER to Regina Sexton’s ‘Good Food’ article headlined ‘Berry bad year’ (Irish Examiner Weekend, September 3).