Gerard Walsh believes case shows ‘following orders’ defence will not work anymore

Dubliner’s personal fortune was wrapped up in his efforts to keep ailing bank open

HSE phones woman to apologise while she is getting post-cancer-treatment wig

After move to new post civil servant’s official title will be director general of Global Ireland

Paul Drechsler, outgoing president of CBI, warns of ‘another moment of danger’

Judge says former banker engaged in ‘grossly reprehensible behaviour’ in 2008 conspiracy

Former chief’s jail term reflects lead role at Anglo but others are serving longer in UK, US

It took years to bring former Anglo chief to justice and he had to endure an excruciating wait of his own for his sentence

Former chief executive is most senior Anglo official to be convicted

Damning health watchdog report calls for urgent action at child protection agency

Report by the State health watchdog found evidence of poor record-keeping

Hiqa says systems failures in State’s child protection agency pose a risk to children

Spiritans, founders of Blackrock College and Rockwell, to shut Marian House in Dublin

Provider contracted laboratories to take out insurance for at least €22.6m per claim

Approval sought for $250,000 loan from Nama and Ulster Bank to fund investigation

Niall Burgess identifies gaps in Spanish and Chinese as missions set to increase

New building will be biggest ever capital investment by Department of Foreign Affairs

Officials warn disclosures ‘could be more harmful than beneficial’ amid smear test inquiry

Failures and delays to disclose have hampered scoping inquiry right from the start

Former candidate and man she claims cost her 2016 election visit on Friday of next week

Department and HSE under fire for late handover and format of documents

Stephen Teap ‘extremely disappointed’ at ‘drip-feed’ and ‘last-minute paper-bombing’

‘Immigrants not welcome’ sprayed on Brownes Irish Market, which was founded in 1887

Taoiseach says Government always viewed October as deadline for Border deal

Varadkar says retrieving medical records ‘not as simple as taking book out of library’

Ukraine, Morocco among new embassies and consulate for LA under global expansion

Varadkar is not concerned that GPs might seek to block roll-out of abortion next year

Conviction of Anglo’s most senior executive a message to white-collar criminals

And what exactly is this ‘backstop’ solution that people are talking about?

Josepha Madigan claims there is an ‘appetite’ to deal with the issue in legislation

DUP leader concerned about message of opening event linked to prison officer killing

‘You didn’t deserve this heartache; I’m so sorry for your loss’, she told family of Bobby Messett who was shot dead

Conviction of former chief executive most significant in nine-year Anglo investigation

This was the third courtroom banker has been defeated in over the past four years

Banker faces potentially a long jail term on conspiracy to defraud and up to 10 years for false accounting

Most damaging fallout of sit-it-out strategy was five months in maximum-security jail

Businessman-turned-politician says future president needs skills to get elected and govern

UK consultants do not see an invisible border being agreed until deal on EU-UK trade

Drumm remanded on bail until June 20th for sentencing after ‘humanitarian’ plea

Irish officials expect new British proposals on Border this week

Sign-off agreed on director share-buying at US firm as cancer controversy deepened

Irish-American businessman a pivotal player in building political support in US for pact

Leader Arlene Foster rejects plan for special joint EU-UK status for Northern Ireland

US firm said Dublin students who stepped off deck before it fell were among settlements

Diplomat rejects suggestion his government applied to open consulate in Ireland

Brexiteer MP Sammy Wilson says reported David Davis proposals were ‘at best contradictory’

Department of Foreign Affairs urges UK to engage with EU ‘in a more detailed way’

Filings show the bulk of the money came from annual dinner in New York

Tánaiste jokes that one of his English uncles voted to leave EU – ‘the one I don’t talk to’

Terminally ill woman says travel and cost of childcare to make appointments taking toll

Medics call on Harris to extend protections for conscientious objectors in legislation

Emails show department queried screening service’s view of Limerick woman’s action

Campaigners for terminations for medical reasons overwhelmed by landslide vote

Woman told two smear tests which initially showed no abnormalities were wrong

Helen Dixon says her office needs to at least double to cope with its expected workload

‘I need the money now, not when I’m dead,’ says terminally ill woman on plans for court

Commissioner preparing to investigate alleged data breach at media company

Cancer-screening service intended to tell medics, but not patients, of audit results

Health official tells PAC she had no idea news of diagnoses had not been passed on

New legal actions heap pressure on response to CervicalCheck controversy

Newly released records show doctors were unhappy onus was on them to tell women

Programme’s manager concedes mistake in not telling women of incorrect smear tests

Six out of 11 women in Limerick not told of audit until after Vicky Phelan case settled

Terminally-ill Limerick woman seeking accountability over CervicalCheck scandal

Doctors were being ‘put at a disadvantage’ in deciding who should or should not be told

Vicky Phelan and Stephen Teap to appear before Public Accounts Committee

Doctors told of limits on applying policy for screening services with ‘inherent error rate’

Solicitor urges Taoiseach to clarify how State will take over women’s cases against US labs

Doctor expresses concern about difficulties he has met in carrying out scoping inquiry

Email shows clinical director regretted any ‘perceived lack of clarity’ in cancer review

People to take to streets in Greystones and Dublin over CervicalCheck failings

Public Accounts Committee will continue to hold hearings on CervicalCheck controversy

All involved in cancer screening controversy will have to account for actions, says Taoiseach

Stephen Teap asks: should Leo Varadkar have known about the 2016 memos?

Memos show health chief told in 2016 disclosure of false tests still only a possibility

Scoping inquiry buys Minister time to consider ways of holding a part-public inquiry

Simon Harris explores how to hold ‘bespoke’ inquiry to permit women to testify in public

Posters depicting Minister’s face alongside aborted foetus erected near his Wicklow home

Less than half the women calling CervicalCheck helpline have received a call back

State agency says it cannot accept liability for smear tests carried out by US laboratories

Sinn Féin TD accuses State Claims Agency of acting like Pontius Pilate by ‘washing hands’ of women

Lawyer for terminally ill woman rejects agency’s assurances to treat cases sensitively

Profiles of chief clinical officer of HSE and chief medical officer at Department of Health

Dr Colm Henry said he took assurances that patients were being informed ‘at face value’

‘Scoping exercise’ before Government decides on commission of investigation

Varadkar backs Minister’s consent granted to O’Brien to take up board role at US firm

O’Brien received ‘written consent’ to take up role months before finishing at HSE

O’Brien joined female contraceptive maker before he announced he was leaving HSE

EU’s Brexit negotiator presses British for rapid agreement as DUP raises temperature

Varadkar and Barnier put further pressure on UK to suggest detailed border solutions

EU’s Brexit negotiator responds to DUP leader by saying there is ‘no spirit of revenge’

EU’s chief negotiator says preparations must be made for no agreement on visit to Border area

HSE says 162 women not told of delayed diagnosis

Dr Gráinne Flannelly told Limerick gynaecologist to file audited test results instead

Director general says sorry to Vicky Phelan for delay in being told about incorrect test

Lidington ‘very determined’ to agree solution but October deadline remains for Brexit deal

Vicky Phelan row: Simon Harris orders review of screening to ensure best practice

CervicalCheck director and Limerick doctor clashed over who should tell affected women

Copy measures in use on US-Canadian and Norwegian-Swedish borders, report suggests

Claims of journalists’ emails being accessed raise ‘very serious public interest issues’