Sinn Féin and RTÉ clash over Kielty’s TV Traitors joke on Late Late ShowParty says jocular remark reflects ‘far-right tropes’ and demands an apologySun Oct 20 2024 - 15:39
What went wrong at the Peter McVerry Trust and why did it need a €15 million bailout?Why did the housing charity need a €15m bailout?Fri Oct 18 2024 - 11:23
Serious questions raised about future of Peter McVerry Trust Good work of charity for homeless not in doubt but ‘numerous key compliance and governance failures’ found by Charities RegulatorTue Oct 15 2024 - 05:30
Peter McVerry Trust board ‘not aware’ of property deal at centre of ‘conflict of interest’ inquiryCharities Regulator criticises ‘inadequate management accounts’ which failed to report level of debtors, creditors or debt financingMon Oct 14 2024 - 17:19
Road Safety Authority has spent €2.5m on PR since 2020Details of RSA public relations spend provided after ‘tricky’ TDs advice prompted Freedom of Information requestSat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
Irish Rail sends 37 senior officials to Berlin trade fair as it faces anger over delays caused by new timetablesTravel schedule due on Thursday to be fourth in three months after botched changes spark commuter complaintsThu Oct 03 2024 - 06:00
What changes have been made to inheritance tax in the budget?Budget 2025: Everything you need to know about the inheritance tax cut which comes into effect todayWed Oct 02 2024 - 13:41
How far will budget measures go to improve housing delivery?Budget 2025: With house prices still on the rise, these are incremental measures on the long and rocky road to stabilityTue Oct 01 2024 - 18:42
Cost of rapid-build accommodation set to double to potentially €442,000 per unit, C&AG saysValue-for-money report also reveals Revenue assessment that retailer Dunnes Stores owed State more than €36 million was settled for €5 millionTue Oct 01 2024 - 06:00
Housing charity wants full State funding despite €15m bailout, spending watchdog foundInterim chief executive at Peter McVerry Trust was paid €1,000 a day following resignation of previous CEOMon Sept 30 2024 - 21:04
DAA chief calls for Government to intervene in row over Dublin Airport passenger capBasil Geoghegan says ‘a level of inertia and inactivity’ has delayed resolution of the disputeMon Sept 30 2024 - 06:00
DAA chairman: ‘I would like us to take the airport off the front page’ Basil Geoghegan says airport operator, facing passenger cap struggle, has same standing in planning system as a person extending their houseMon Sept 30 2024 - 06:00
Moriarty tribunal pays Collery legal costs 17 years after finding he lied under oath ‘Arrangements continue’ for ‘full and final wind-down’ of tribunal established 27 years ago, says Department of the TaoiseachTue Sept 24 2024 - 06:00
Campaign group opposed to wind farm criticises An Bord Pleanála for shutting it out of new planning decisionGroup had got court permission to proceed with judicial review action against decision allowing White Hill Wind to build seven turbines on Carlow-Kilkenny borderMon Sept 23 2024 - 06:00
An Bord Pleanála begins fresh investigation into governance issuesMove follows barrister’s unpublished report which took more than 1½ years to finish on ‘matters of concern’ in planning boardTue Sept 17 2024 - 06:00
Siún Ní Raghallaigh, seven months after RTÉ affair: the Oireachtas hearings were ‘vicious. People were unfairly treated, as if they had no rights’Former RTÉ chairwoman on ‘vicious’ Dáil hearings, a missed opportunity to fund the national broadcaster and life after being in the public glare of the Montrose psychodramaSat Sept 14 2024 - 06:00
Office of Minister for Equality Roderic O’Gorman criticised for breaking Freedom of Information rulesMinister’s department refused to acknowledge or reply to application from The Irish Times for referendum papersFri Sept 13 2024 - 20:05
University of Limerick sharply criticised over two botched property deals with over €8m losses UL’s €5.2m overpayment when buying 20 student homes in 2022 resulted in a ‘significant loss in value for money’, State’s spending watchdog findsFri Sept 13 2024 - 14:05
Man arrested in connection with ‘alleged harassment’ of UL officialArrest follows months of disruption over housing deal in which UL overpaid by €5.2m when buying 20 student homes two years agoWed Sept 11 2024 - 06:00
Cardinal Health took $100m dividend from Irish unit before cutting up to 315 jobsWorkers told Tullamore plant will close by March 2026Fri Aug 30 2024 - 06:47
Will WRC ruling on fiddler in band spark a rush of cases from the gig economy? Workplace Relations Commission ruling notable for directly applying the Supreme Court judgment in Domino’s Pizza caseThu Aug 29 2024 - 20:15
RTÉ faces rising tax bill to settle status of hundreds of workers Broadcaster set aside €21.7m to meet PRSI liabilities from bogus self-employment in the organisation, records showWed Aug 28 2024 - 06:00
PR firm warned Road Safety Authority about ‘tricky’ Public Accounts Committee membersDublin public relations agency Drury provided short biographical notes on each TDTue Aug 27 2024 - 06:00
Second woman had affair with disgraced bishop Eamonn Casey, new book revealsWoman secretly disclosed 1960s relationship with cleric in London in perceived attempt to thwart his return to public ministry decades laterSat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00
From modest Irish roots to vast wealth: the extraordinary life and death of Mike LynchAfter the sinking of the technology tycoon’s superyacht off Sicily, we explore Mike Lynch's remarkable historySat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00
Deadline missed for mother-and-baby redress deal with church ordersNegotiator Sheila Nunan ‘will continue her work to its conclusion’, Department of Equality saysTue Aug 20 2024 - 06:00
Who is Mike Lynch, the tech tycoon born to Irish parents, missing after a luxury yacht sank off Sicily? Son of fireman and nurse studied at Cambridge and would go on to become embroiled in Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud caseMon Aug 19 2024 - 17:18
Trump’s Doonbeg resort raking in the revenue, according to US election filingRepublican candidate declared more than €22m from Co Clare hotel and golf linksSat Aug 17 2024 - 06:00
Naval Service member dismissed a year after pleading guilty to attacking ex-girlfriendFormer Naval petty officer David O’Gorman pleaded guilty to violent attack on former girlfriend that displaced one of her eyesFri Aug 16 2024 - 06:00
Bord Pleanála chair corresponded with barrister for months before her report was deliveredFOI disclosure shows dozens of emails between Peter Mullan and Lorna Lynch SCThu Aug 15 2024 - 06:00
‘People say Donegal is the forgotten county but in Donegal, this is the forgotten area’There was ‘no tourism in Fanad’ before the lighthouse tourist centre, which employs 29 local peopleMon Aug 05 2024 - 06:00
Final report by inspectors appointed to investigate governance at former INM expected this weekResults of six-year investigation to be put before Mr Justice Peter Kelly of the High CourtMon Jul 22 2024 - 06:00
Sipo silent as deadline passes for challenging High Court ruling on Leo Varadkar leak caseTD who brought judicial review case calls on the Sipo to respond to judgement publiclyFri Jul 19 2024 - 17:29
Uisce Éireann requests €400m from State to boost utility’s €1.4bn budgetCompany asks for extra funds amid industry warnings that water projects inflation is compromising housing deliveryThu Jul 18 2024 - 06:00
Former An Bord Pleanála official received €212k exit payout Rachel Kenny got severance after it was found she had ‘no case to answer’ in relation to conflict of interest claimsWed Jul 17 2024 - 06:00
Report into governance scandal at Independent News & Media to be given to High Court within days Investigation into data breach and other matters could go before court next weekSat Jul 13 2024 - 06:00
Top housing official to step down early in blow to Government planBob Jordan, chief executive of The Housing Agency, had a five year deal but will step down in SeptemberThu Jul 11 2024 - 17:40
Peter McVerry Trust faces a reckoning over financial fog in its operationsThousands of families have reason to be grateful to charity, but its recent activities have left questions to answerThu Jul 11 2024 - 06:00
Peter McVerry Trust claimed title over property it did not own, draft regulator’s report findsLitany of governance failings outlined at €165m homelessness charity, including double-counting of ‘multiple’ propertiesThu Jul 11 2024 - 06:00
RTÉ plans to publish external earnings of TV and radio stars hits a legal wallProposal to release ‘details of approved activities’ central to transparency drive after storm of controversy concerning lax governanceWed Jul 10 2024 - 06:00
UL chief officer launches defamation case against head of commercial operations and wifeProf Shane Kilcommins initiated High Court action in a personal capacity against head of commercial operations Andrew Flaherty and his wife Audrey FlahertyThu Jul 04 2024 - 06:00
Harris exempts land at TU Dublin college on Aungier St from ‘social and affordable’ housing law Developers hired to design next phase of Grangegorman campus to receive ownership of Aungier Street siteTue Jul 02 2024 - 06:00
‘It’s very easy to move’: Independent production companies consider Late Late’s futureWith flagship shows headed out of Montrose, Kielty and RTÉ are expected to retain important sayWed Jun 26 2024 - 19:05
Tax-free allowances for Michael McGrath’s seven children will bring EU pay package to €443,000 a yearNew EU Commissioner will receive a base salary of €314,000 plus entertainment, household and residence allowancesWed Jun 26 2024 - 06:00
RTÉ's Late Late Show and Fair City to be produced off Montrose site under new strategyGovernment agrees to release first tranche of €20 million in interim funding following reform programmeTue Jun 25 2024 - 17:41
Naval Service officer still serving despite guilty plea in violent attack on former girlfriendDavid O’Gorman was involved in a serious assault in Limerick in 2020Mon Jun 24 2024 - 06:00
Charities received more than €1m from court poor box last yearPayments are predominantly made at the discretion of District Court judges in minor, non-violent criminal cases with no custodial sentenceSun Jun 23 2024 - 14:02
High Court Sipo decision is a bad outcome for Leo Varadkar - and ethics watchdogThe former taoiseach faces more scrutiny of questionable actions when he first led the Government.Fri Jun 21 2024 - 16:29
UL president’s move to new post raises questions about property cost debacleProf Kerstin Mey not leaving university but changing to senior academic roleSat Jun 15 2024 - 06:00
University of Limerick president Kerstin Mey to resign Prof Kerstin Mey will take up a professorship role within the universityFri Jun 14 2024 - 14:00
