Darragh O’Brien was prompted to radically change state planning law because a major property developer was refused planning permission for just one development, according to advice the housing minister received from the attorney general.
Josepha Madigan made bogus ministerial mileage claims over four years.
Madigan resigned as junior education minister just hours after The Ditch had given her until Monday to answer questions relating to her mileage
Simon Harris linked homeless people to crime in an attempt to overturn permission for a child and adult shelter in his constituency. Though his attempt was unsuccessful he did contribute to a delay in delivering the facility.
The result of the 2018 referendum that repealed the Irish constitution’s Eighth Amendment should have been monumental. It should’ve, truly, changed things. That’s what we were told and what we wanted to believe.
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.