Fine Gael senator Joe O’Reilly has paid ex-councillor and party colleague Seán McKiernan more than €18,000 from a taxpayer-funded allowance – since gardaí started investigating McKiernan over alleged theft from a charity.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) won’t release details of one of Micheál Martin’s engagements during a recent trip to Egypt, Israel and the occupied territories for fear it may damage Ireland’s international relations.
Fianna Fáil’s recently nominated candidate for Limerick mayor said that tánaiste Micheál Martin is unfit to lead, The Ditch can reveal.
Micheál Martin in early March said there was “no question” single-parent families would be covered by the proposed family constitutional amendment – despite having received advice from the attorney general months before that this wasn’t the case.
On 8 December, 2023 attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to minister Roderic O’Gorman with his advice to government ahead of tomorrow‘s two constitutional referenda. Government wouldn’t publish it. Here it is. Download it at the links above and below.
The attorney general told minister for children Roderic O’Gorman, “It is difficult to predict with certainty how the Irish courts would interpret the concept of ‘other durable relationships.'"
The attorney general told minister for children Roderic O’Gorman there is legal “uncertainty” about the government’s proposed care amendment to the constitution and the legal obligations it would place on the state. The proposed amendment, which has been heavily criticised by carers and people with disabilities, says the
An ex-spy and a special forces commander who had a “classified” role at the Israeli prime minister’s office are among the more than 20 Israelis living in Ireland with links to their state’s intelligence services.
Freda Laughton was a poet, children’s author, short story writer and artist. She was the first woman in Northern Ireland to have a poetry collection accepted by an established publisher.
If you asked Stephen Donnelly about the health agencies his department is responsible for, about whether he thinks they’ve strived to support the carers of children with spinal conditions over the past few years, he would likely look at you and tell you, yes, of course.
Gardaí have reported more than 1,000 official garda identification cards as lost in the last eight years.
A Fine Gael politician allegedly paid for sex workers' services and threw parties with money he’s accused of embezzling from a government-funded organisation.