Ireland’s official state standards body – currently being sued by a Donegal husband and wife for its alleged failures in the county’s mica crisis – has admitted to losing one of its international accreditations.

A former Fianna Fáil councillor who was today sworn in as a District Court judge failed to declare his ownership of three properties in his annual ethics returns.

SIPO has flouted electoral law by refusing access to Leo Varadkar’s most recent donation statement.

The Law Society refuses to accept the adverse findings of an Ombudsman investigation into how the society handled a complaint against its sitting president.

Less than a quarter of 206 jobs at seven companies promised by Leo Varadkar and the IDA in October 2020 were actually delivered.