Tipperary councillor David Doran is the latest public representative to quit Sinn Féin, describing the party as “an affront to democracy”.

Thousands of serving and former police officers in the North today won the right to make compensation claims for post-traumatic stress suffered as a result of decades of violence.

Nike has agreed to pay €1.4m to a workers rights group to settle a “sweatshops” case which has been dragging on for five years.

Nike said today it had agreed to pay £1m (€1.42m) to a workers rights group to settle the case which has been dragging on for five years.