Minister for Justice Alan Shatter: under pressure over high-level garda briefing

Academic says sharing of such information ‘not within spirit of the law’

No details of how unrecorded ‘ticking-off’ of Wallace percolated to the top levels of Garda

The Cabinet yesterday discussed the troubled financial situation at the State transport company after Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar presented the report.  Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

Coras Iompar Éireann would have incurred a deficit of €45 million last year if it had not received emergency assistance from Gove(...)

Deputy Mick Wallace at Leinster House yesterday. “Most came to the realisation that the the political row surrounding Shatter was petering out.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Analysis: Minister for Justice’s case helped by lack of Government sympathy for Mick Wallace

 Deputy Mick Wallace at Leinster House yesterday. He said Mr Shatter had “tried to ridicule us, skew the debate, misrepresent us and show a level of disrespect to us as elected representatives.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne

No pressure on Minister from Labour Coalition partners to resign over remarks about Wallace

 Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at at Citizenship Ceremony in Dublin yesterday. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times

Shatter faces more criticism over using information given in Garda briefing but he doesn’t do apologies or climb-downs

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton will bring a memo to Cabinet today on the Social Welfare Bill, which will be published later this week. Photograph: Eric Luke

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has argued that putting lone parents directly on jobseekers’ allowance would be too one(...)

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter: said information was relayed to him as part of a general briefing on the cancellation of penalty points. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Minister of State Seán Sherlock calls for clarity as senior party figures are reluctant to get involved

Minister for Finance  Michael Noonan and Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin. Tough exchanges between the Government and the troika on a revised Croke Park deal can be expected. Photograph: Alan Betson

Analysis: Brendan Howlin must show a clear pathway as to how savings will be achieved over the next two years

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