Two Garda brothers and a civil servant mole illegally passed confidential information on to a private detective agency, a court heard today.

A man, who was one of the homeless people prevented from sleeping outside a building used by Tánaiste Joan Burton’s department, is to face a fitness-to-plead hearing, a court has ordered.

The Teen Parents Support Programme is horrified at the attitude to, and treatment of, a young mother by a Tipperary secondary school.