Gardaí kept jobs despite garda intelligence linking them to organised crime
An internal garda intelligence file named three Athlone gardaí suspected of involvement in the midlands drug trade.
Analysis – State Failures: The Special Relationship
'If it wasn’t for American leadership, and if it wasn’t for America and Europe working together, I don’t know what kind of world we’d live in.'
Donohoe ignored allegations of financial wrongdoing in his constituency, signed off on state deal for lender
Donohoe ignored allegations a partly state-owned financial institution knowingly loaned almost €10 million to a company acting as a front for a property developer in debt to Nama.
Analysis – State Failures: Letterheads and Waiting Lists and Silence
In September 2023, I wrote the first story about the use of non-medical grade springs in surgical implants at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, as well as broader concerns about care received by spinal patients there. Some reflections.
Attorney general’s advice to government on planning amendment in full
On 2 February, 2024 attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to minister Darragh O'Brien and the coalition leaders with his advice to government on a controversial amendment to the Planning and Development Bill 2023. Here is the advice in full. Download it at the links above and below.