News from Ireland

Liam O’Flaherty’s novel a tale of gombeenism    

Lawyers had ‘grave doubts’ about mandatory regimes    

Clearer graphs and diagrams in Leaving Cert welcomed    

TCD lecturer says exam is not suitable for students growing up in a non-Arabic country    

Junior Cert Business Studies    

Plant will affect Dublin City Council area residents say TDs    

Judge allows details of Bayley’s violent history of rapes and assaults to be revealed    

    

Intensive efforts to agree a text acceptable to Fine Gael and Labour    

Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin agrees Catholic Church has credibility issue on conscience    

MacSharry says Kenny accusing Seanad of doing nothing to stop excesses of Celtic Tiger era is objectionable    

Case predating that of Savita Halappanavar also concerned maternal sepsis    

Significant recommendations on abortion laws, maternal care expected from review    

New regime triggers tensions with judiciary    

Brian Murray and Mark O’Shaughnessy died fighting blaze at disused ink factory    

Majority of FG TDs on accounts committee argue chairman’s comments not a resigning issue    

Public Accounts Committee chairman has been damaged but his position is not untenable    

Book is scathing of how it says Bono “defended U2’s partial move to Amsterdam, avoiding Irish taxes”    

    

Three-year sentence of loyalist implicated in murder of ‘Sunday World’ journalist Martin O’Hagan to be reviewed