Over €2m is being paid out per year in allowances to civil servants working abroad, according to a report published this morning.

I USED to be an inveterate funeral goer – several per week. I hadn’t been to one for the past two years until the unexpected death of newspaper man and former schoolmate, Alan Ruddock.

A LECTURER who secretly double-jobbed by working in two colleges at the same time is likely to receive two pensions, it has emerged.

Nurses and midwives will take their claims for better pay and working hours to the attention of the Taoiseach today.

Irish athletes have won 32 more medals in gymnastics events at the Special Olympics.