Latest: Online tributes have been paid to an "inspirational" young American woman who died in a house fire in Limerick, Monday.

THE Health Service Executive has demanded urgent answers from staff in Cork and Limerick after it was revealed that several family members of HSE employees were recruited to well-paid temporary jobs without an open competition.

PEOPLE struggling to make ends meet are being forced deeper into debt in greater numbers, with cases getting more complicated “by the week”.