Nursing home Fair Deal review ‘paused’ over data protection concerns

Deal established to provide financial support for those in private or public nursing home care

Second suspect arrested in education board corruption investigation

Arrests follow report highlighting concerns about procurement in Kildare and Wicklow

Nama criticised over sale of loans linked to Quinlan Private

Sale of portfolio could have cost State up to €29m, spending watchdog report suggests

Local historians busy as GAA prepares for year of centenaries

Cork events to mark War of Independence while Tipperary remember Bloody Sunday

Eircodes never or rarely used by over 60% of people

System was introduced in 2015 at a cost of €38m – nearly €20m more than budgeted for

Irish banks plot fresh wave of job cuts as low ECB rates and Brexit bite

Four of the State’s five surviving retail banks are working on a major cost-cutting drive

Children’s hospital: procurement chief resigns from board

Paul Quinn is latest senior official to leave board, with project expected to cost €1.7bn

Referendum commission set up over extending presidential vote to emigrants and North

Move follows publication of Bill which would allow citizens resident outside State to vote

Ireland paid €200m net to European Union in 2017

Agriculture and rural development received 86% of €1.8bn paid out by bloc, report shows

Kildare and Wicklow ETB to review all rental leases

‘Serious lapses’ in State body’s financial practices severely criticised in C&AG report

UL students may have got wrong exam results, PAC hears

Unpublished report highlighted concerns over university’s student records system

Charges still being considered against one suspect over inquiry into Nama

Deal in which €6bn worth of property loans to a US firm for €1.6bn prompted a criminal inquiry

Maurice McCabe spent latter part of career in eye of storm

Whistleblower faced considerable animosity within the Garda force

Lack of statutory oversight of voluntary housing bodies criticised

C&AG notes just 246 of 547 housing bodies have signed up for regulatory system

Supt David Taylor’s Garda future under review after tribunal

Mr Justice Peter Charleton found the former Garda press officer lied in an affidavit

Maurice McCabe ‘repulsively denigrated’ by Martin Callinan

Former Garda commissioner conducted ‘campaign of calumny’ against whistleblower

Callinan said Sgt McCabe was child sex abuser – Tribunal

Callinan and Taylor ran two-man campaign against Garda whistleblower McCabe

Minister blames 17-month delay in department’s move on Office of Public Works

Simon Harris says OPW ‘solely responsible’ for accommodation and procurement

The Irish Times view on Áras an Uachtaráin’s finances: transparency is required

The presidency’s funding should be looked at, but not by the tendentious PAC

Micheál Martin queries PAC move to examine Presidential Office costs

Office of President’s spending to be examined despite constitutionality concern

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