Jo Jo Dullard’s family pleaded with a Fine Gael justice minister more than 25 years ago to help sanction a search of a farm sealed off by gardaí yesterday after the arrest of its owner – a deceased ex-Fine Gael politician’s son – on suspicion of Dullard’s murder.
Despite issuing a carefully worded statement on Friday pledging to stop delivering munitions to Israel, Dublin-based ASL used a subsidiary company – which it wholly owns – to transport dozens of the packages to the Israel Defense Forces over the weekend.
A Fine Gael councillor has admitted he failed to declare his co-ownership of a Dublin 4 property valued at more than €1 million. Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown councillor Pierce Dargan did however declare his current private residence.
Housing minister Darragh O’Brien has appointed a former Fianna Fáil election candidate – once predicted to be Fianna Fáil ‘s choice for attorney general – as chair of the defective concrete blocks appeal board.
A senior US diplomat warned tánaiste Micheál Martin's office and the taoiseach of "consequences" if government enacted the Occupied Territories Bill – 90 minutes before Martin issued a statement committing only to a "review" rather than enactment of the legislation.
