Analysis – State Failures: Without Consent, Without Redress, Without Justice

With the Irish state sitting on a budget surplus of around €16 billion this year, the government still voted this summer to exclude around 24,000 mother and baby institution survivors from redress.

Senior council official leasing six properties to local authority

Carlow County Council’s director of services is leasing six apartments to Wexford County Council – which used to employ him as a senior housing officer.  Pádraig O'Gorman owns eight rental properties and he struck a deal with Wexford County Council to lease six for social housing – just six

Analysis – State Failures: Siding with North against South, with Colonisers against the Colonised

It comes as no surprise that the Irish government does not actually reduce its emissions. Each year the Irish government buys carbon credits from other countries as evidence of its compliance with European Union climate legislation.

Taoiseach didn’t declare 2018 donations – finally acknowledged five years later

Leo Varadkar submitted a further two false statutory donation statement declarations to SIPO, it can be revealed.

Varadkar's office issues implausible explanation over undeclared donation controversy

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s office last night issued an implausible explanation about false donation statements he submitted to SIPO last year. Yesterday The Ditch reported that Varadkar submitted two false statutory declarations to SIPO in 2022.  The Ditch can also reveal that the taoiseach last year wrongly assured SIPO that

Leo Varadkar submitted two false declarations to SIPO

Leo Varadkar submitted two false statutory declarations concerning his corporate donations to SIPO. Documents obtained by The Ditch show the Fine Gael party leader submitted the first of these two false statements just weeks after The Ditch reported last year that he misled a SIPO probe into undeclared political donations.

Senior Tipperary housing official leasing two properties to local authority employer, among 20 percent of senior landlord staff

The second-most senior housing official at Tipperary County Council is letting two properties she owns to her local authority employer for social housing.

Analysis – State Failures: From the Lobby

Leo Varadkar, Simon Coveney, Eoghan Murphy and Paul Hyde have at least one thing in common: they all played crucial roles in implementing a classically neoliberal thesis that solutions to Ireland’s housing emergency would be found by relying on – and directly facilitating – the market.

‘A single mother at home all day causes more wear and tear than working professionals’: Inside the groups where landlords share advice

Landlords across Ireland are using Facebook groups to exchange advice on how to circumvent laws restricting rent increases, evict long-term tenants and identify the most lucrative demographics to whom they can rent their properties.

IDF personnel among international military to receive training in Ireland

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military personnel have trained in the Irish Military College over the last six years. 

Council says it won’t act over house illegally built by Fianna Fáil councillor’s son

Galway County Council says it won’t take any action against the son of a controversial Fianna Fáil councillor who illegally built a house on land he didn’t own – which had been repossessed by a bank and sold to a close friend of his councillor father.

Comment: Ireland cheered on the war in Ukraine – now we are failing its victims

As anti-immigrant sentiment spreads across the country, politicians are ceding ground to the far-right by echoing that wretched fascist slogan: Ireland is full.