Emails show Dublin-based Elkstone CEO Alan Merriman coordinating an investment involving a client, an ex-Israel prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein in a tech startup founded by former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers.
Years before my job with The Ditch, I worked freelance for Irish and British magazines. The subjects I was assigned were often interesting, but putting together articles could be mechanical.
Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan’s department has embarrassingly included three long-rescinded laws in its “anti-democratic and authoritarian” new Civil Reform Bill.
Claiming antisemitism is a serious problem in Ireland, Micheál Martin and Simon Harris cited the work of an organisation accused of serious factual distortions.
An Irish insurance company that insured a ship so it could deliver munitions to Israel last month also covers Maersk vessels carrying vital parts for F-35 combat jets used by Israeli forces to drop bombs on Gaza.
State agency Bord Bia last year paid more than €135,000 for “food costs” to a catering company directed by under-fire chairman Larry Murrin and owned by his wife.
Two multi-billion-euro weapons manufacturers are sponsoring a speaking event with EU commissioner for democracy, justice and rule of law Michael McGrath.
Make a one-time donation to The Ditch Fianna Fáil TD Michael Cahill – convicted last week of dangerous driving – was previously found liable by a court for causing a crash that left a young girl with “difficulty learning to walk”. He was ordered to pay £6,000 compensation to the
There’s a revisionist Irish history that goes like this.
An internal Defence Forces document said one of the main reasons for Irish defence spending is maintaining foreign direct investment – and an Irish Examiner article used the document’s language, almost word for word, to argue for expanding the Irish military.
The judge who this week claimed cyclists had “become a nightmare” previously had a judgment quashed by the High Court because he interrupted a barrister more than 2,000 times in the trial.
An Irish company insured a ship so it could deliver 440 tonnes of munitions to Israel last month.