News digest Tuesday 30th July 2019 by Martina o'Leary
Borris Johnson hasn't made contact with the Taoiseach yet in advance to his visit to Northern Ireland on Thursday.
The Department of Social Protection sought thousands in overpayments with having little or no documentation reports the Ombudsman.
The taxpayer subsidised private schools by more than €90 million last year, according to official figures.
Our social welfare system should allow everyone to live with dignity writes Paul Ginnell, director of the European Anti-poverty Network Ireland, in the Examiner.