The justice minister is now facing serious questions as it emerged he was told of an the email at the centre of the latest Maurice McCabe scandal a full week before the Taoiseach was informed.

A national school’s High Court challenge, aimed at overturning the Department of Education’s direction compelling it to enrol a six- year-old boy with severe behavioural difficulties, has been resolved.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is facing the prospect of two motions of no confidence and may be forced to recall the Dáil a fortnight earlier than planned as the Fennelly Report fallout threatens to engulf the Coalition.

County Cork Education and Training Board has said it and the Department of Education have delivered detailed responses to more than 30 issues raised in a long-running, public spending investigation.

The Taoiseach has said things have "sunk to a new low" after revealing that the Justice Minister, Alan Shatter, was the victim of anti-semitic abuse.

THE Labour Party was not informed about concerns of phone recording at Garda stations until the Cabinet met on Tuesday morning, according to one of its ministers, Pat Rabbitte.

A Garda whistleblower has described the sacking of the force’s confidential recipient as "disturbing".

The Secretary General of the Department of Finance has left open the possibility of a tougher than planned budget because we will have to downgrade growth prospects for this year and next.

Garda bosses have appeared to pull back on their criticism of music promoters MCD regarding their handling of the Swedish House Mafia gig at Phoenix Park in July.

The Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach have both welcomed Ireland's borrowing of money from markets today, at an affordable interest rate of below 6%.

The Secretary General of the Department of Finance has said he needs to create a system where recriminations and witch-hunts are not the consequences of honest mistakes.

THE Ombudsman for Children has rebuked the top civil servant in the Department of Justice.

EXPENSIVE large-scale capital projects first mooted during the boom may have to be abandoned to help stabilise our debts, the secretary general of the Department of Finance has warned.

A diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Dublin has been fired and asked to leave the country after an investigation revealed Russian involvement in the forgery of Irish passports.

The Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs has met with the Israeli ambassador in Dublin today over the use of false passports by the alleged killers of a Hamas official in Dubai last month.

The Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has said there has been a significant strengthening of governance and accountability at FÁS.

The Morris Tribunal is set to cost the Irish taxpayer €70m.

The secretary general of the Department of Agriculture has insisted that the Government's decision to withdraw all Irish pork and bacon products late last year was the correct one.

THE Department of Justice has apologised to the American Ambassador to Ireland over an incident in which a garda on security duty at the embassy allegedly abandoned his post and got into a drunken row with a colleague before leaving again and being caught drink driving.

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