The 2026 Dormant Accounts Action Plan allocates funding of €46.97 million to 56 measures across 11 Government departments.
“You’re not addressing the substance of the point…You’re filibustering”: Ben Scallan grills Charities Minister Jerry Buttimer on the Government’s policy of only funding activist NGOs that are in line with the Government’s agenda. https://youtu.be/bzMDZn2l4UM
In line with the National Philanthropy Policy.
Cut off and interrupted.
“How did it happen and why?”
As violent crime surges across Ireland, particularly in major cities, few politicians have been willing or able to admit the severity of the crisis. With Fine Gael styling itself as the “Party of Law and Order,” and insisting that Ireland is “a safe country,” it’s seemed for several years now that the government is reluctant […]
Close them now, then, and there is a fair chance they will not open again until almost February.
Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer has referred to a study in the Lancet as being from “The Lancelot,” apparently mistaking the medical journal for the mythical knight of King Arthur’s round table. An easy mistake to make, in fairness. The error was made during a Seanad debate this week on the extension of the government’s […]
One of the few things that growing up in Monaghan fails to instill in a person, sadly, is any great affinity for boats, or the sea. My own experience on the Ocean extends no further than once having been permitted by my wife to captain a pedal boat on an overseas holiday. It ended, alas, […]
A Government Senator has told the Seanad that parts of Cork city are being terrorised by high levels of anti-social behaviour. Senator Jerry Buttimer said today that this has created a situation whereby substantial parts of the city are now no-go areas and that fears are emerging that this will lead to a “summer of […]
They’ve all gone mad, haven’t they? Just think: there’s an alternative universe out there somewhere in which Fianna Fáil members had sense and told Micheál Martin that going into coalition was a dumb idea. In that universe, Dara Calleary is presently leader of Fianna Fáil, and leader of the opposition, watching his poll numbers grow […]