Carlow County Council’s director of services is leasing six apartments to Wexford County Council – which used to employ him as a senior housing officer. Pádraig O'Gorman owns eight rental properties and he struck a deal with Wexford County Council to lease six for social housing – just six
It comes as no surprise that the Irish government does not actually reduce its emissions. Each year the Irish government buys carbon credits from other countries as evidence of its compliance with European Union climate legislation.
Leo Varadkar submitted a further two false statutory donation statement declarations to SIPO, it can be revealed.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s office last night issued an implausible explanation about false donation statements he submitted to SIPO last year. Yesterday The Ditch reported that Varadkar submitted two false statutory declarations to SIPO in 2022. The Ditch can also reveal that the taoiseach last year wrongly assured SIPO that
Leo Varadkar submitted two false statutory declarations concerning his corporate donations to SIPO. Documents obtained by The Ditch show the Fine Gael party leader submitted the first of these two false statements just weeks after The Ditch reported last year that he misled a SIPO probe into undeclared political donations.
The second-most senior housing official at Tipperary County Council is letting two properties she owns to her local authority employer for social housing.
Leo Varadkar, Simon Coveney, Eoghan Murphy and Paul Hyde have at least one thing in common: they all played crucial roles in implementing a classically neoliberal thesis that solutions to Ireland’s housing emergency would be found by relying on – and directly facilitating – the market.
Landlords across Ireland are using Facebook groups to exchange advice on how to circumvent laws restricting rent increases, evict long-term tenants and identify the most lucrative demographics to whom they can rent their properties.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military personnel have trained in the Irish Military College over the last six years.
Galway County Council says it won’t take any action against the son of a controversial Fianna Fáil councillor who illegally built a house on land he didn’t own – which had been repossessed by a bank and sold to a close friend of his councillor father.
Gsoc leaked a complainant’s entire case file – which concerned a sensitive, personal matter – to another person with the same name.
A Fine Gael Meath county councillor didn’t declare his ownership of 150 acres of farmland, a significant property portfolio, rental income he receives, as well as a beauty salon.