It is critical that governments are able to pull the plug on major projects when costs are greater than expected, a top civil servant has insisted.

The HSE spent over €76,000 on taxis every day last year.

The divestment follows the enactment of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018 which was signed into law by the President last month.

Here are questions this weekend for Ireland’s finance minister, who is also, relevantly, minister for public expenditure and reform.

Cork County Council has refused to reveal what went wrong when it paid €1.5m to build a vehicle underpass below a railway line that is now filled in with earth between two fallow fields.

The response of a local authority to FoI requests on a €1.5m underpass illustrates the difficulties in examining how public monies are spent, writes Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan.

On July 5, 1999, Murphy was off from work in Clifden, Co Galway, with injured ribs for which he received an anti-inflammatory injection and prescription painkillers, when he decided to visit the island.

A restaurant worker has been jailed for 14 years for the manslaughter of three elderly sisters who died in a house fire on an island off the Galway coast.

Alan Murphy, 27, from Newcastle, Co Down, was today sentenced to 14 years in prison by a judge at Galway Circuit Court for the manslaughter of three elderly sisters in a house fire on an island off the Galway coast in July 1999.