Fifteen private solicitors’ practices received fees in excess of €200,000 last year for carrying out work on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

SCHOOL leaders expressed anger at the lack of changes to procedures to protect teachers and students from misbehaving classmates, 18 months after the necessary law was passed.

WOMEN’S lives in Waterford have been put at risk because long-awaited cancer screening services are not being delivered on time, a Labour councillor claims.

Since breast screening has been proven to cut cancer deaths by 20%, it is an outrage that BreastCheck has not yet been introduced in the South and West.

A SIGNIFICANT breakthrough has been made in the long campaign to have the national breast screening programme expanded to include women from the South and West.