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.

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.

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.

The garda suspended for lending a bicycle to an elderly man assisted a whistleblower colleague who’d raised evidence of another guard’s collusion in the drug trade. The suspended garda – as well as the assistance he gave the whistleblower – was identified to colleagues during a tribunal.

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.