Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes. An investigator from the commissioner’s office has written to the person who made the complaint indicating the matter will be raised with LinkedIn.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Data Protection Commissioner investigates allegation that woman’s information was used to further private complaint

 Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes highlighted the need for additional resources for his office when he published his annual report for 2012 at Government Buildings today. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

Data Protection Commissioner criticises State agencies over use of information on welfare databases

Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes: said there were concerns over in workplaces where “workers perceive that their work performance is being monitored on a live basis”. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

Data Protection Commissioner says there is no legal basis to allow remote monitoring of employees

The new Bridge linking Burgh Quay and Marlborough Street under construction over the River Liffey .Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

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Josephine Feehily, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

Email purporting to be from Revenue Commissioners urges customers to click link for tax rebate

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Ombudsman says she will report to Dáil after health executive obstructed her inquiry

The late Tony Gregory putting up election posters in Dublin city in May 2007.Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Brother of late Dublin Central deputy says he championed the regeneration of the area

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David Hall questions ’naming and shaming’ policy of new debt relief legislation

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Experts tell Oireachtas committee insurers taking “combative and adversarial approach to claims”

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