The High Court has ruled a vulture fund illegally evicted a woman and her son with special needs from their home of 20 years – during an action gardaí and an asset management company linked to a convicted criminal assisted at.
South Dublin County Council reluctantly caved to legal pressure and will hold a meeting about proposed council rent hikes – but its unelected chief executive has said, even if councillors vote against the increases, rents will rise regardless.
Disgraced property developer Cathal O'Connor told the Sligo County Council chief executive he was “110 percent confident” of councillors voting through a development plan close to what he wanted – a “developer-led” scheme.
The Ditch can reveal that the Powerscourt Hotel first hosted Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman’s secretive Dialog event in 2018.
Palantir founder Peter Thiel will host a gathering this August at the Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow – with 87 of the 222 guests listed as first-time attendees.
Last week The Ditch published a story about an internal report examining the work of seven Children’s Health Ireland consultants.
You get a sense of how theatrical parliamentary politics is while perched in the gallery above the Dáil chamber.
Jack Chambers urged every major Irish sporting body to use their "influence and authority" to enforce bans on Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine.
An internal report obtained by The Ditch has exposed hospital consultants prioritising private child patients over those on public lists – with public patients forced to wait significantly longer for vital surgery.
Government claims that releasing a briefing note prepared for Simon Harris’s meeting with the US ambassador in the aftermath of an FAI motion to suspend Israel from European football would “harm” the state’s “capacity to conduct international relations”.
After two patients of a surgeon at Beaumont Hospital suffered “devastating neurological outcomes”, a doctor-led committee at the hospital – in a letter obtained by The Ditch – has asked a clinical director to stop the surgeon performing certain surgeries.
An Irish insurer that covered a ship carrying 440 tonnes of munitions to Israel – which Amnesty International said could contribute to genocide – had the “honour” of having Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy attend the opening of its new Dublin office.