The operator of the National Car Test centres has been criticised for conducting “a sham investigation” into the complaints of an employee who threatened to expose regular breaches of the company’s rules at one of its centres in Cork.

A Limerick man who sexually abused his daughter while she was aged between 13 and 16 years old has been jailed for seven years.

A man who claims he was unfairly dismissed from a Cork NCT centre said he suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of working there.