One arm of Government suspended funding to TENI just six weeks ago, based on a failure to produce accounts. And another arm of that same Government, with no apparent regard for the concerns of the Department of Health, has just handed them close to six figures.
€4.6 million to groups that are involved in supporting the victims of crime
Being in with elite has served her well
The Irish government is set to give “significant” funds to a new Migration and Media Academy being established in Ireland, and those funds will be of “enormous impact” for the initiative. Ireland was chosen as the location for the new global academy because the university system was “particularly interested”, the media was “open and excellent”, and “in particular, the government […]
The abbreviation “NGO” stands, as most people know, for “non governmental organisation”. In other words, it covers a whole range of charities, political lobby groups, and representative bodies who take part in the political process, but who are not political parties, or part of the Government. Amnesty Ireland is an NGO, as is the Irish […]
We hear much about threats to democracy from ‘fake news’ and tech manipulation, but the veneer of free and fair elections seems very thin when one scratches under the surface of how our elected elite have already stacked this particular deck in their favour.
Toward the end of August, Gript was able to demonstrate that from 2016-2019 the National Women’s Council of Ireland were allocated €270,000 under The Scheme to Support National Organisations (SSNO) administered by Pobal on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development. We also pointed out at the time that this was more than […]
The Scheme to Support National Organisations (SSNO) is administered by Pobal on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is described as a key element of that Department’s support for the development of strong and vibrant civil society and “in improving outcomes for those most disadvantaged. It is with that in mind […]