The private firm that is shutting down the largest direct provision centre in the capital received payments totalling €27.5m from the State over an 11 year period for operating the centre, new figures show.

Pic 1: Anything that’s good enough for a gang of world leaders is good enough for Wishlist.

YESTERDAY the entire Cabinet showed up in Cork to prove that there’s at least one aspect of the Government decentralisation programme that’s more or less going to plan.