A NEW York-style ‘community court’ designed to deal with low-level crime is to be set up in Dublin. The Cabinet approved a pilot scheme for the court in a bid to drastically slash the backlog of cases waiting to be heard. The new court could see low-level criminal suspects appear in front of a special...Read More

WE’re earning slightly less than we were a year ago, but working fractionally longer, new data suggests. Average weekly earnings totaled €687.28 at the end of last year – down 0.6pc from a year earlier, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said this morning. And yet the number of paid hours worked rose by 0.3pc compared...Read More