All thoughts are with the Gargan and Dunne families as the moment they had long feared has come to pass.

It’s 30 years since the “grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented” events that led to the resignation of the attorney general, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

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The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that the objections by eight former attorneys general to the proposed reforms of Oireachtas investigations and the judges’ pay referendum shows that "there is a bit of an old boy's network" present in the legal profession.

EIGHT former Irish attorneys general have voiced collectively their strong opposition to the Government’s proposal to amend the Constitution to give the Oireachtas special powers of investigation.

WE are strongly opposed to the current proposals to amend the Constitution for the following reasons.

OPEN Letter to the Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn:

THOUSANDS of singers and dozens of choirs travelled to Leeside over the last week for the 57th Cork International Choral Festival.

WORLD CHAMPIONS Aidan Murphy and Eamon Bowen Jnr shared the limelight at the weekend, winning their opening rounds of the Pat Barry Cup and the Mick Crowley Cup respectively.

AN ASSISTANT Garda commissioner is to be appointed to head policing in the southern region as part of a reshuffle of senior garda personnel.

A military contractor suspected of hacking into the teenage girls’ computers and threatening to post their personal information online unless they sent him revealing photos was arrested by US authorities.

Notorious killer Malcolm MacArthur will be let out of jail for a few hours tomorrow to celebrate Christmas with friends.

POLITICS, during the summer, is as dead as vaudeville.

LAST Sunday, as the media had wall-to-wall coverage of Joe O’Reilly’s conviction for the murder of his wife, the 25th anniversary of one of the most notorious murders in Irish history went unnoticed.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau is to get a new chief, replacing Felix McKenna who is set to retire in two week’s time.

A HIGH Court challenge by convicted murderer Malcolm MacArthur to his continuing imprisonment will be responded to by the State within three weeks with a file, the High Court was told yesterday.

A SENIOR detective used Charlie Haughey’s infamous GUBU phrase at the Morris Tribunal yesterday to describe “sinister elements” in the murder investigation of Richie Barron in 1996.

A senior detective used Charlie Haughey’s infamous ‘Gubu’ phrase at the Morris Tribunal today to describe “sinister elements” in the murder investigation of Richie Barron in 1996.

THE Government’s decision to reject the recommended release of murderer Malcolm MacArthur was criticised yesterday by a human rights group.

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THE transfer of one of the State’s longest-serving prisoners to an open jail has been welcomed by human rights campaigners.

TRANSFERRING killer Malcolm MacArthur to an open prison would be illogical unless other elements of the pre-release programme are put in place, according to a prison reform group.

TWO women shouted abuse at a man outside a court yesterday before he was charged with an arson attack on a family home.

The violence in the North reached its bloody height in 1972 – and even the sleepy village of Claudy was plunged right into the mayhem.

THE Government is to seek legal advise from the Attorney General on whether the Justice Minister can pass the decision on the future of convicted killer Malcolm Macarthur to a Cabinet colleague.

The prison service is reportedly preparing to release one of Ireland’s most notorious murderers.