The number of judicial reviews taken by asylum seekers against the State has tripled in three years, with legal costs soaring to €2.4 million last year.

Fleet vehicles were involved in six road traffic collisions over the past two years, with three in each year.

New figures provided by the Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, show that Cian O’Carroll’s Cashel firm received the highest amount amongst plaintiff firms in medical negligence cases against the State in 2024 and 2023

Alfie O’Reilly was four days old when he died at Cork University Maternity Hospital in July 2020

A new support package was co-designed with survivors and makes enhanced health, social care and independent living supports available

The High Court heard the 20-year-old is profoundly neurologically impaired, has to use a wheelchair and is entirely dependent on others