The campaigns manager in Ireland for a foreign political organisation carrying out a “name and shame” campaign against TDs is married to an Aontú general election candidate who sits on the party's ard comhairle.
More than 700 new PPS numbers and 600 work permits have been granted to Israelis in Ireland since October 2023.
Enterprise Ireland went “cocktail networking” with the international arms industry at the French embassy – the day after media reported government was set to relax rules on state agencies backing defence companies.
Fianna Fáil junior minister Niall Collins mocked a constituent concerned about Fianna Fáil removing the triple lock – and refused to engage with correspondence, instead responding, “Thank you for your AI generated email”.
For the first time in a decade the Irish state has refused more Palestinian visa applications than it granted – while Israelis continue to benefit from visa-free travel to Ireland.
The family of an Irish activist on trial in Germany are calling on government to send an observer to the ongoing case in Stuttgart – and say he’s being denied his right to a fair trial.
PwC hosted a private briefing for Irish companies seeking defence contracts, the arms industry representatives and the European Defence Agency (EDA), according to a “strictly confidential” invitation seen by The Ditch.
The Oireachtas committee responsible for scrutinising TDs and senators’ expenses met just once last year – and didn’t sit even after finding a third of sampled members couldn’t account for their expenses.
Coimisiún na Meán has admitted the state’s lack of Irish-language media is a risk – but has failed to implement proposals from Irish language organisations to address it.
Daniel Kinahan, a man named in the Irish High Court as head of a violent crime family, is synonymous with what tabloid newspapers call "gangland", their term for the world of organised crime.
The PSNI says it is not in the public interest to disclose how many of its weapons have gone missing or been stolen from custody in the past two years.
Competition undertakings to separate the British owner of Ireland’s largest regional newspaper group from the advertising sales house his rivals depend on have “proven ineffective” – according to Celtic Media Group (CMG).
Make a one-time donation to The Ditch The Irish government is breaching EU media freedom law and RTÉ “is a monopoly” – according to TG4. The Irish-language public service broadcaster has urged Coimisiún na Meán to intervene to secure the “editorial independence of Nuacht TG4”. The submission was published
Since being brought back into the ministerial fold, Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy has almost trebled his money on a rental property investment and bought out his business partner on a separate investment property now worth around €1 million.
In the 17th century Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer wrote his thesis about a disease he had observed. It mostly affected young people sent abroad, but also those who led cloistered lives before travelling, who were stricken with an all-consuming desire to go home.
An Ireland-based weapons manufacturer implicated in the Gaza genocide lobbied the Department of Finance this summer about economic sanctions during the period the Occupied Territories Bill was passed and signed into law.
The Department of Foreign Affairs won’t release records of what Helen McEntee told an off-record closed-door dinner organised by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk's Board of Yalta.
SIPO won’t say if it – as required by law – investigated a member of the Oireachtas who failed to submit proof of their tax compliance.
SIPO finished last year without a single investigation underway – despite a 63 percent rise in complaints against public officials.
A Ditch investigation into how Dublin investment firm Elkstone and its chief executive Alan Merriman coordinated a $500,000 investment in a deal involving Jeffrey Epstein was removed from Google search worldwide after a bogus copyright complaint.
Fianna Fáil’s Norma Foley opened the new office of a business illegally renting out properties in her constituency for more than €300 a night
Five years ago a friend and I visited Belfast on 12 July. She was researching a potential book about a united Ireland. I was interested in writing about loyalism. We walked around the city, went to Sandy Row, saw the KAT graffiti and heard the sectarian chants.
The Irish state investment fund increased its shareholding in Peter Thiel's Palantir last year as the Israeli military used its technology to commit genocide in Gaza.
Two senior tech lawyers at Dublin law firm Mason Hayes & Curran – including its chairperson and Meta’s external Irish counsel – were going to attend Peter Thiel’s cancelled secret Dialog event in the Powerscourt Hotel.