With Heather Humphreys facing renewed criticism of her social protection department’s proposed “Tory” overhaul of disability payments, those affected by her decisions as minister say they “never felt represented” by the Fine Gael presidential candidate.    ,

Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.

For the first time since 2006 the state has admitted it allowed munitions of war – onboard a US military plane authorised by Simon Harris to touch down at Shannon Airport – to travel through Irish territory on their way to Israel.

Simon Harris’s department discussed procurement policy with Lockheed Martin lobbyists just months before government announced a record €1.49 billion defence budget.

A company under garda investigation was incorporated just a month before Heather Humphreys was the star attraction at its February “charity” event.