“‘Entirely inappropriate’ – anger as Fine Gael Youth leader attends US right-wing conference” This was the headline that greeted the group of 11 students and young professionals shortly after landing in Dublin Airport recently on a crisp Monday morning at 6 am. They had set off from Washington Dulles over 6 hours before and had […]
I’ll be honest, I spent a good ten minutes trying to think up a good “swing” joke to greet this news with, and I came up short. “Swings and Roundabouts” was about the best I managed, and that’s just lame. I suppose you can’t have someone who’s now associated, rightly or wrongly, in the public […]
A construction company, Western Building Systems, that built 42 schools with structural defects for the state has been given a contract by the HSE worth €14m to build an extension to University Hospital Limerick. Western Building Systems is being pursued in fifteen separate legal actions by the Department of Education, after structural defects were discovered […]
A real good news/bad news report from property website Daft this quarter. The good news: At 6.7%, the rate of increase in Irish rents is finally slowing and slowing quite significantly. The bad news: The people at Daft think it’s because people just can’t afford to pay any more than they are paying. According to […]
Beef farmers who say they are being treated like slaves on their own farms tell Tim Jackson they won’t back down from protesting, despite threats of an injunction. The farmers say that the prices they are getting for beef are less than the cost of raising the animal.
There’s a very simple lesson here, I think. Tell your children to become lawyers. Gript can report that The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission has confirmed to the Dáil that the costs incurred in legal fees relating to the Angela Kerins and Denis O’Brien Supreme Court cases will amount to just under half a million […]
The cage-fighter punched the older man in a Dublin pub.
Competence.
Bad news for anyone who fancies a dip.
Four million euros. That’s a lot of money to spend on advice, isn’t it? You’d think with four million euros worth of expert advice, the health service would be humming along nicely, but apparently not even that amount of consultant assistance can help the hapless Minister get it right. Anyway, the good news is that […]
You’ll have heard by now about David Norris spending €70,000 on his website, a story so delicious that even his relatively good friends at the Irish Times are raising an eyebrow about it. I must confess I eagerly logged on to www.senatordavidnorris.ie this morning to marvel at what that kind of money can buy, and, […]
The young man in the photo above looks harmless enough, doesn’t he? And yet, this week, more Fine Gael politicians have said that he should resign his position than ever said the same for their colleague, Maria Bailey, after she was caught apparently trying to perpetrate an insurance scam. He is Killian Foley-Walsh, the President […]