The Department of Education is facing a showdown with schools subcontractors who have been left out of pocket after the collapse of the British construction giant Carrillion and the Irish group Sammon.

Just one of 35 primary health care centres announced by the Government to great fanfare almost five years ago is operational, it has emerged.

Internal audits have found IT issues in various sections of the HSE, as well as concerns over mobile phones and some examples of overpayments.

Some hipster foodie type got lucky recently when their lost phone was picked up by our lovely boys in blue An Garda Siochana.

Alan Hawe, 40, was a conscientious and obliging man, who was at the heart of his community, a friend and neighbour has said.

A family wiped out, a community laid waste by grief, a house within whose walls lies the answer to what motivated the killer in an horrific murder-suicide that claimed the lives of five.

IRA Disappeared Brendan Megraw, 22, died of a gunshot wound to the head fired at close range, Dublin Coroner’s Court has heard.

A Canadian software company which plans to create more than 100 customer support jobs in Cork over the next two years has announced an open recruitment event to fill the roles.

Video footage and photographs of 43-year-old blind man, John Llyod, his wife and their 10-year-old son being evicted from their home have gone viral.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A generous 70-year-old grandmother has asked family and friends to donate money from intending gifts for her 70th birthday to a fund for a complete stranger seeking eye surgery.

The Head of the Investigation team searching for the so-called 'Disappeared' is urging anyone with any information - no matter how small - to contact the commission.

A body has been found in a bog in Co Meath where a man abducted and murdered was believed to have been secretly buried by the IRA.

A body has been found on a bog in Co. Meath where a man abducted and murdered was believed to have been secretly buried by the IRA.

One person may hold vital clues to several families’ decades-long quest to find the bodies of loved ones abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA.

After months of exciting plotting and planning, the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest got underway at the Grain Store in Ballymaloe last night.

Self-awareness and self-defence were strong themes among stage performances by teens showcasing their work to highlight social issues.

Mary Lynch was working her taxi for just over two hours when she encountered Jerry McGrath. It was 2.15am on Monday, April 30, 2007. McGrath emerged from the nightclub in the Headford Arms Hotel in Kells, Co Meath, and asked would she take him to Virginia, Co Cavan, where his sister lived. He was from Dundrum in Tipperary, but was staying with his sister.

MARY Lynch heard about the murder on the nine o’clock news. It said a woman had been beaten to death and gardaí were looking for a 23-year-old man.

Artist Michael Farrell died in self-imposed exile in France, appalled by the Troubles. A retrospective here reaffirms his status in the Irish pantheon, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

The identity of an infant who had died within minutes of birth was used in a social welfare scam in Co Meath, a court has heard.

A father and son are among the latest Irish troops being despatched to a United Nations peace-keeping mission in the Middle East.

Gardaí are seeking public assistance in finding a 22-year-old man missing from West Dublin and a 66-year-old woman who is missing from Wexford.

An Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe a viable explosive device in Kells, Co Meath today.

Two people have been arrested after gardai seized drugs worth an estimated €1.5m in Co Meath.

A company director is to go on trial in April accused of looting pension fund contributions of almost 200 employees.

The debate about whether house prices are falling or rising might remain but one fact is certain — Irish people love a property auction.

Parents of a 10-year-old boy claim he has been bullied out of school due to racial taunting over his accent.

Two men have appeared before Cavan District Court this evening charged in connection with the death of Ciaran O'Connell.

Detectives have arrested two men over the killing of a young man at a St Patrick’s Day house party.

CROKE PARK will be unavailable for next year’s prestigious World Handball Championships because of its handball centre’s protracted planning permission process.

A COUPLE in their 70s were among four people arrested after gardaí smashed a sophisticated cannabis factory in rural Kilkenny.

THE lakeside sister towns of Ballina/Killaloe, which straddle Lough Derg, will next Saturday host more than 500 people for the inaugural 10k Pink Ribbon Walk by the Lough to raise breast cancer awareness.

GALWAY breeders and owners enjoyed success at the Connemara Pony Show in Clifden.

TWO youths used a chainsaw to try and cut through a post office in a terrifying attempted robbery yesterday.

SEPARATE murder investigations are under way following the discovery of two bodies in Dublin.

The lessons of Leas Cross have still not been learnt by nursing homes, says Juno McEnroe

AN Irishman drowned when a tourist ship sank off the coast of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, an inquest ruled yesterday.

THE Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) has set the bar high with its new Premier Grand Prix League, but it is confident the strict criteria it has laid down for it “can only ensure excellence”.

Gardaí involved in a weekend blitz on drug dealers today arrested another man.

Leinster look to defend their Ladies Interprovincial title when the three-day tournament starts at Headfort Golf Club, Kells, Co Meath, on August 2-4.