Niall Collins

Anne Harris: Dr Eimear O’Connor a scapegoat in a political battle not of her making

What did women fight for all these years if not for autonomy and agency - and that they be not judged by their relationships with men?

Web Summit funding of €1m for The Ditch as editor rejects ‘anti-government’ tag

Eoghan McNeill described Micheál Martin’s intervention on investigative website as ‘mix of ignorance and arrogance’

‘It’s not the talk of the town’: Patrickswell locals bemused by Niall Collins row

Fianna Fáil junior minister has more clarifying to do over planning controversy, his constituents think - but he ‘isn’t the worst of them’

The Ditch: Who is behind the website Micheál Martin says is ‘attacking Government’?

News website is run by ‘two guys, a couple of laptops, a website and a Twitter account’, says shareholder

Tánaiste accuses Paul Murphy of ‘weaponising’ Sipo over Niall Collins complaint

Martin accuses website The Ditch of distortion and creating a toxic atmosphere online

Podcast: Micheál Martin takes on The Ditch

Micheál Martin’s rant in the Dáil was the first point of discussion on the podcast’s round-up this week

Collins accused of breaches of Code of Conduct for councillors in complaint to State’s ethics watchdog

Fianna Fáil TD told Dáil ‘no law was broken’ over 2008 property purchase from Limerick County Council

Collins says ‘no law was broken’ in relation to wife’s purchase of property

Minister of State says that in hindsight it would have been better if he had not participated in a local area committee meeting

Miriam Lord: No hurling from the ditch as Tánaiste gets stuck into Collins reports

The compelling action came when the Tánaiste got stuck into The Ditch

‘No law was broken,’ junior minister Niall Collins insists as he addresses Dáil

Minister of State for Skills and Further Education was defending role in wife’s purchase of property from Limerick County Council in 2008

Tánaiste takes aim at The Ditch website, describing it as ‘political organisation’

Micheál Martin claims news site is not an ‘independent media platform at all’ and questions who is funding it

Who is Niall Collins, the Fianna Fáil junior minister who can’t shake off controversies?

The TD is the scion of a Limerick political dynasty and has consistently polled well, even at party low points

Collins expected to make Dáil statement on wife’s property purchase

Opposition TDs have been calling for statement to include a questions and answers session

Miriam Lord: Varadkar’s dead wallaby defence buys Niall Collins no time for a break

Opposition TDs say they will not tolerate another statement in the tumbleweed hours

Niall Collins faces demands to answer TDs’ questions over Limerick property purchase

Coalition leaders criticise but ultimately back junior minister as opposition TDs say law was breached

Niall Collins: The events that led to the sale of a site by Limerick County Council to his wife

Site in Patrickswell was sold by council to Mr Collins’s wife, Dr Eimear O’Connor

Niall Collins should have absented himself from council meeting over land sale, Taoiseach says

Junior minister says he was not on council when land was sold, so had no ‘pecuniary or beneficial interest’ in property at time

Collins statement on property bought by his wife has not addressed all the questions

Fianna Fáil Minister of State breaks silence to address claims over property transaction 15 years ago

Niall Collins statement on Limerick property unlikely to silence questions

Junior minister responds to series of stories published by The Ditch website about his wife’s purchase of a property in Limerick

Minister for Agriculture’s St Patrick’s trip ‘producing more CO2 than average Irish house in a year’

Energy company reveals likely carbon emissions impact of flights by Irish Ministers

Niall Collins called upon to make further Dáil statement on planning application

Minister of State for Skills Niall Collins argues planning permission was properly granted

Podcast: Collins still in the danger zone, opportunity knocks for Cairns

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Niall Collins insists planning permission was properly granted

unior minister does not address issue of residence at time of application in personal statement to Dáil

Niall Collins: Glaring unanswered question after planning statement leaves him in political danger zone

Minister of State fails to address key question in statement to Dáil

Niall Collins ‘entirely satisfied’ planning application correctly handled

Limerick TD addresses Dáil over allegations on The Ditch website

Niall Collins not expected to make Dáil statement on planning application until next week

Junior minister said to be taking time to review documents before making statement

Niall Collins to address ‘all circumstances’ surrounding planning application in Dáil

Minister of State has denied allegations made by online site The Ditch pertaining to application

Niall Collins to make Dáil statement on 2001 planning application

Decision to address Dáil follows allegations on The Ditch website relating to Patrickswell house

TD Niall Collins denies owning Limerick site despite planning consultant’s claim

Minister for State says site is owned by his wife who is a ‘private citizen’

Rathkeale violence: Simon Harris pledges additional resources as he visits Limerick town

Video footage of aftermath showed several destroyed cars and what appeared to be a number of machetes left on road nearby

Contact lens maker Johnson & Johnson Vison to create 200 jobs in Limerick

US multinational investing €35m in the operation in Castletroy

Prison officer who claimed bullet narrowly missed him loses court action

Firearm was discharged by an Irish Army soldier at Portlaoise prison 34 years ago

Miriam Lord: ‘Votegate’ double-voting controversy rears its ugly head again

Fianna Fáil was hoping no one would mention the War of the Buttons two years later

DCC chief should apologise for ‘flippant’ remarks made to UCDSU, says Collins

Comment about student accommodation not a resigning matter, says Minister of State

Government wants to forge closer cross-Border links to tackle skills gaps

Calls for Erasmus-style programme to boost access to education on both sides of Border

Ireland’s newest university formally established

Third-level institution established from merger of Limerick IT and Athlone IT

Summary: Fianna Fáil general election report reveals where party went wrong

Lack of identity emerges as one of the most worrying issues for party to deal with

Vaccines to be made available to 16 and 17-year-olds next month, says Harris

Minister confident third level students will be ‘mainly on-site’ this academic year

Four FF members of Cabinet say Martin should lead party into next general election

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue calls on internal Fianna Fáil critics to ‘cop on’

Blitz of Covid-19 testing for Co Limerick after rate of infection nearly doubles

Interval between doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to be reduced on a phased basis

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