Systems within An Garda Síochána are not providing members with the security needed to make protected disclosures, said president of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, Antoinette Cunningham.

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We owe a debt of gratitude to Alice Hanratty (Irish Examiner, February 9) for blowing the whistle on the outrageous proposal to add the names of British soldiers to the list of1916 patriots for display in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Jermain Defoe has warned Sunderland they cannot allow their barren run to continue for much longer if they are to avoid another survival scrap.

A Westmeath hurling supporter has been banned for 48 weeks for clashing with a referee after the county senior hurling final.

A two-year investigation into the financial affairs of the County Cork VEC has been completed and is to be published next month.

Welsh official Nigel Owens will take control of Munster’s Heineken Cup quarter-final with Toulouse, with tournament organisers ERC appointing England’s Wayne Barnes as referee for Leinster’s trip to Toulon.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter said it was “outrageous” to suggest that he “threatened anybody or authorised to threaten anybody” over attempts to blow the whistle within An Garda Síochána.

Who says there’s no such thing as bad publicity? An amusing advert placed on the Irish website DoneDeal proves the point.

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No 15, The Vicarage is a high-spec five-bed reduced to €425,000, says Tommy Barker

A former IBM employee who claims she “blew the whistle” on alleged fraud at the company was told by a judge her behaviour was self-serving and “far from heroic or honourable”.

Limerick chairman Oliver Mann has said Saturday’s junior final scoreline confusion was regrettable.

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Dolphins and whales literally squeal with pleasure, say scientists who claim to have shown that the sound expresses emotion.

The former World Cup final whistler has been handed a new role as performance director for England’s professional referees.

A powerful Dáil committee is seeking to delete the names of politicians accused of having Ansbacher-linked accounts from the official record and haul in a TD who named them for a private dressing-down.