Donohoe ignored allegations a partly state-owned financial institution knowingly loaned almost €10 million to a company acting as a front for a property developer in debt to Nama.
On 2 February, 2024 attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to minister Darragh O'Brien and the coalition leaders with his advice to government on a controversial amendment to the Planning and Development Bill 2023. Here is the advice in full. Download it at the links above and below.
The garda suspended for lending a bicycle to an elderly man assisted a whistleblower colleague who’d raised evidence of another guard’s collusion in the drug trade. The suspended garda – as well as the assistance he gave the whistleblower – was identified to colleagues during a tribunal.
Darragh O’Brien was prompted to radically change state planning law because a major property developer was refused planning permission for just one development, according to advice the housing minister received from the attorney general.
Josepha Madigan made bogus ministerial mileage claims over four years. Madigan resigned as junior education minister just hours after The Ditch had given her until Monday to answer questions relating to her mileage expenses. The Ditch first contacted the Dublin-based TD on Tuesday and asked why she claimed to
Simon Harris linked homeless people to crime in an attempt to overturn permission for a child and adult shelter in his constituency. Though his attempt was unsuccessful he did contribute to a delay in delivering the facility.
The result of the 2018 referendum that repealed the Irish constitution’s Eighth Amendment should have been monumental. It should’ve, truly, changed things. That’s what we were told and what we wanted to believe.
Fine Gael senator Joe O’Reilly has paid ex-councillor and party colleague Seán McKiernan more than €18,000 from a taxpayer-funded allowance – since gardaí started investigating McKiernan over alleged theft from a charity.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) won’t release details of one of Micheál Martin’s engagements during a recent trip to Egypt, Israel and the occupied territories for fear it may damage Ireland’s international relations.
Fianna Fáil’s recently nominated candidate for Limerick mayor said that tánaiste Micheál Martin is unfit to lead, The Ditch can reveal.
Micheál Martin in early March said there was “no question” single-parent families would be covered by the proposed family constitutional amendment – despite having received advice from the attorney general months before that this wasn’t the case.
On 8 December, 2023 attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to minister Roderic O’Gorman with his advice to government ahead of tomorrow‘s two constitutional referenda. Government wouldn’t publish it. Here it is. Download it at the links above and below.