During his time as defence minister Simon Coveney met with defence lobbyists – who’d previously talked with him about the sale of Irish military tech to the US – but didn’t record what was discussed during the encounter.
The doctor referred to the Irish Medical Council amid the ongoing scandal at Temple Street Children’s Hospital remains a member of the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh’s medical board.
A Fianna Fáil county councillor using his social media profiles to call for safer roads has been suspended from driving for almost two years for a drink driving conviction.
The PR company that made donations to Leo Varadkar that the taoiseach didn’t declare twice lobbied him on behalf of Airbnb over the last year.
Ireland’s official state standards body – currently being sued by a Donegal husband and wife for its alleged failures in the county’s mica crisis – has admitted to losing one of its international accreditations.
A former Fianna Fáil councillor who was today sworn in as a District Court judge failed to declare his ownership of three properties in his annual ethics returns.
SIPO has flouted electoral law by refusing access to Leo Varadkar’s most recent donation statement.
The Law Society refuses to accept the adverse findings of an Ombudsman investigation into how the society handled a complaint against its sitting president.
Less than a quarter of 206 jobs at seven companies promised by Leo Varadkar and the IDA in October 2020 were actually delivered.
A monitoring committee led by Enda Kenny’s office used bogus jobs to bolster an official employment progress report.
Simon Coveney left a state board role he was responsible for open beyond the legal timeframe, rejecting at least two candidates, before finally appointing his close friend Paul Hyde, who would later become a convicted criminal.
The ex-taoiseach, ex-IDA CEO and ex-junior enterprise minister were among those taking credit for almost 90 bogus jobs purportedly created by a now-scrapped government initiative that ended in controversy.