Nearly 80 percent of hip operations at a Children’s Health Ireland hospital were unnecessary according to a leaked expert report obtained by The Ditch.

A lobbying group dedicated to “standing up for Israel” wrote to government last year requesting the Irish state adopt a controversial definition of antisemitism – and the Department of Justice assured the lobbyists that Ireland’s hate speech legislation would address some of their concerns.

Micheál Martin has repeatedly misrepresented the status of legislation that would ban trade with Israeli settlements deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Late last October attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Roderic O'Gorman. In his letter Fanning gave the government ministers advice on the Occupied Territories Bill – legislation that has been blocked by successive governments for the last seven years.

The former chief legal counsel for Guantanamo Bay’s detention camps leads the US agency the Irish Department of Defence has hired to advise Ireland on expanding the state’s military.