The country’s judges were engaged in a long-running dispute with successive governments in the early 1980s over their pay and expenses.

The new article would put children’s welfare, rather than the marital family, at the heart of decisions affecting them, writes Dan Buckley

A LETTER writer to the Irish Examiner during the week asked if the manner in which John O’Donoghue was essentially forced to step down as Ceann Comhairle was “trial by media and mob justice.” There can be little doubt that there was an element of this in what happened. People are becoming dangerously exasperated.

DEPUTIES could face having to “clock in” to the Dáil with electronic swipe cards so that their attendances can be monitored.

JOHN O’DONOGHUE might wish his political colleagues’ expenses would attract the same scrutiny as his have.

NATIONAL politicians should not be entitled to tax relief on lucrative expenses of which the public cannot avail.

Former Fine Gael TD Maurice Manning was today re-appointed as president of the Human Rights Commission for a second five-year term.

THE funeral of the former chief justice and government minister Tom O’Higgins took place in Dublin yesterday.

LEADERS from across the political divide paid tribute to former chief justice Tom O’Higgins who died yesterday.