A BUSINESSMAN who owed “over €1 million” in taxes and penalties has failed to engage with Revenue officials since appearing in court earlier this year, the state said yesterday.

Rescue workers in New Zealand have said they still have grave fears for more than 200 people caught up in the Christchurch earthquake.

THE overwhelming size of yesterday’s vote in favour of industrial action at FÁS, the State-run training agency, represents the most serious threat to date for the Government’s endangered plan to decentralise the civil service.

SECONDARY teachers have accused the Government of playing politics with rundown schools in dire need of being refurbished or replaced.