It’s not easy being a beloved celebrity in Ireland these days, as Marian Keyes found out to her cost this afternoon. The best-selling Rachel’s Holiday author has almost 187,000 followers on twitter, where she shares insights about her life, blended with reliably progressive and feminist political views on the issues of the day. This afternoon, […]
Aontú have accused Sinn Féin of working with British MPs to contravene the Good Friday Agreement, and says the party is now happy to have Westminster impose legislation on the north of Ireland.
The Government is under pressure following the emergence of the Public Services Card debacle, with the data protection commissioner ruling that the state had illegally gathered, and held, data on citizens. Costs incurred in the scheme will run to about the equivalent of a large euromillions win – all for nothing. It is very likely […]
The broadband plan is back in the news. The Journal.ie reports this morning that the Government spent €25million of taxpayer’s money on consultancy reports into the national broadband plan between 2013 and 2019. A hefty sum, by anyone’s standards: In a letter from the Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to the Oireachtas Budgetary Oversight Committee, seen […]
RTE withheld information from Tusla, the agency responsible for child protection within the state, that could potentially have helped the agency intervene with rogue Creche providers earlier, Gript can report. At least two months went by when RTE had knowledge of active fire hazards and threats to the safety of the children in the ‘care’ […]
Independent TD for Offaly, Carol Nolan, has urged the Health Minister, Simon Harris, to ensure the National Cancer Strategy will not be put in jeopardy by the massive over-spend racked up in building the National Children’s Hospital (NCH). Deputy Nolan made her comments after obtaining an answer to a parliamentary question from Minister Harris which […]
Are you excited? RTE has released a new schedule today for autumn and winter, which, if we’re honest, looks an awful lot like the usual RTE schedule: Irish stories are front and centre of RTÉ’s New Season with entertainment, drama, climate change, live sport and more at the heart of programming. The stars and makers […]
According to the generally well-informed Pat Leahy over at the Irish Times, Dublin is refusing even to engage with the British authorities on the arrangements that might be necessary in the event of a no-deal Brexit: The new British government wants to talk to Dublin about managing a no-deal exit, but Irish Ministers and officials […]
“‘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 […]