Independent Ireland TD Ken O’Flynn says Big Tobacco can help government fight black market cigarettes and has proposed Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco International appear before an Oireachtas committee – to talk about how Ireland taxes their products.
Collison brothers-backed lobbyists Progress Ireland had an off the books meeting with Fianna Fáil finance minister Jack Chambers that they didn’t declare – as required by law – on the lobbying register.
Make a one-time donation to The Ditch Senator Tom Clonan has named Noel Wynne – of Drimnagh, Dublin – as the man who won’t face criminal proceedings over allegations of child sexual abuse at St John Ambulance. “On last Tuesday, 6 October, the group of survivors was told in the
Jim O'Callaghan's department refused more than half of Palestinian long-term visa applications decided this year – while denying only a quarter from all other nationalities.
Despite claiming to support environmental sustainability the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht is partnering with Google and an Irish NGO to promote AI in the nonprofit sector.
Foreign affairs minister Helen McEntee’shas defended spending more than €150,000 on pro-EU propaganda for schoolchildren that insists the bloc is a “big family” and peddles the importance of security and European values.
Fine Gael health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has defended her 2024 meeting with an ex-Israeli spy, in correspondence seen by The Ditch.
The two US military fighter jets that landed at Shannon Airport on Saturday dropped missiles on Iran earlier this year, The Ditch can reveal.
When the woman on the microphone in the Drumcree Community Centre, a five-minute walk from the Garvaghy Road, began by saying, “Anyone who’s not from round here…” I was grateful. How do we help, just off the train from Dublin, respectful.
The IDA’s CEO prepared to discuss the Occupied Territories Bill and the “impact of US FDI” during a meeting earlier this year with US ambassador Edward Walsh.
The FAI has removed a list of directors and senior management from its website after controversy over Ireland’s fixtures against Israel.
I haven’t been to an Irish soccer match since May 1997 when an Ireland select played Celtic at Lansdowne Road. It was Packie Bonner’s testimonial, a match that players like him are considered to deserve, to go along with the everlasting life he’d realised at the World Cup in 1990.