Forgive me for saying this, but personally, I’d rather live in a country with a small bit of corruption, and competently delivered public services, rather than the other way around.
Say what you want about the Minister for Public Expenditure, but Liam Lawlor or Ray Burke, he ain’t.
Ben Scallan speaks to Pieter Cleppe of the Brussles Report about the alleged EU corruption scandal with Qatar, energy independence, and nuclear fusion. Pieter Cleppe’s website: https://www.brusselsreport.eu/
Qatar alone provided a quarter of the EU’s LNG imports in 2021.
Main suspect denies involvement.
“It is damaging.”
I have come to an inescapable conclusion about seeking public office in Ireland in recent years: You’d have to be an utter fool to do it.
Shakedown.
“There is a bit of overkill on it.”
It’s a basic principle of Irish democracy that taxpayer funding may not be used to promote candidates for election, or sides in referendums. Actually, let me rephrase that: It used to be a basic principle of Irish democracy that taxpayer funding may not be used to promote candidates for election, or sides in referendums. But […]
The money, you see, was only resting in Elisha McCallion’s account. That, at least, is the version of reality we are being asked to accept by the Sinn Fein leadership, which yesterday sought, and received, the resignation of the Derry-born senator over the mysterious diversion of ten thousand pounds of UK taxpayers money, which ended […]
There comes a time when you start to wonder if anyone in the Irish Government is capable of estimating the real cost of anything. If these guys told you they could re-roof your house for three thousand euros, you’d probably be wiser just to re-mortgage the house and prepare for a final bill of around […]