Management company of Celtic Tiger development accused of ignoring fire safety concerns
Multiple affidavits accused the owners' management company (OMC) of a Dublin housing estate of ignoring serious fire safety concerns, The Ditch can reveal.
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Helen McEntee paid state funds to company owned by Fine Gael man charged with charity theft
Justice minister Helen McEntee paid an ex-Fine Gael county councillor charged with alleged charity theft almost €29,000 in state funds for secretarial services.
Analysis – State Failures: The Rebel Song of the Good European
Being a good European is not the same as doing what is good for Europeans, including those who live in one of the union’s smaller member-states.
SIPO hid Varadkar donation statements from public and Oireachtas – finally admits their existence
SIPO concealed from the public and Oireachtas false donation statements submitted by taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
Tony Holohan, Finian McGrath ignored whistleblower's account of illegality in health service
While he was chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan ignored whistleblower Shane Corr’s account of lawbreaking across the Irish health service.
Analysis – State Failures: Without Consent, Without Redress, Without Justice
With the Irish state sitting on a budget surplus of around €16 billion this year, the government still voted this summer to exclude around 24,000 mother and baby institution survivors from redress.
Senior council official leasing six properties to local authority
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
Analysis – State Failures: Siding with North against South, with Colonisers against the Colonised
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.
Taoiseach didn’t declare 2018 donations – finally acknowledged five years later
Leo Varadkar submitted a further two false statutory donation statement declarations to SIPO, it can be revealed.
Varadkar's office issues implausible explanation over undeclared donation controversy
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 declarations to SIPO
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.
Senior Tipperary housing official leasing two properties to local authority employer, among 20 percent of senior landlord staff
The second-most senior housing official at Tipperary County Council is letting two properties she owns to her local authority employer for social housing.