Maybe you'll call us hurlers.

Comment: The left chooses alternative. The right wants to assimilate

There was a pint of Guinness and a print copy of the Irish Times in front of me in Owen Roe’s in Ballyshannon when a producer from RTÉ’s This Week got in touch to ask if I’d go on the show.

Weapons and bombs for Israel to be delivered on ship from Spanish port

The Ditch can reveal that 34 containers of weapons and bombs for Israel left a US port yesterday on the ship Ocean Glory.

Civil servant at Jim O’Callaghan’s department reportedly admits passing staff data to spy agency

The Ditch has learnt that a civil servant at Jim O’Callaghan’s Department of Justice has admitted to passing confidential staff data to a foreign intelligence agency.

Clare Daly: MEPs effectively buying seats in corrupt European Parliament

Activist and former MEP Clare Daly says the European Union is corrupt – and that candidates are effectively buying seats in the European Parliament. 

Jack Chambers enjoyed business class flight and five-star hotel, secretary flew economy and stayed at Hilton

Fianna Fáil public expenditure minister Jack Chambers enjoyed a taxpayer-funded business-class flight and two nights in a five-star Washington, DC hotel to attend the secretive Bilderberg Meeting – while his private secretary flew economy and stayed in a cheaper hotel.

RTÉ faces potential investigation over GAA Allianz programme

RTÉ faces a potential investigation over failing to tell Prime Time viewers a guest defending the GAA’s Allianz deal – in a segment presented by Miriam O’Callaghan – runs a business network that counts the insurer as a key commercial partner and member. 

Arnotts security company also works IPAS centres

The private security company involved in the death of Yves Sakila outside Arnotts also works at IPAS centres across the country – and claims to have won awards for diversity, equity and inclusion. 

Patrick O’Donovan’s department didn’t disclose his secret Coimisiún na Meán call in meeting minutes

Patrick O’Donovan’s departmental records of his meeting with Coimisiún na Meán don’t disclose the secret phone call he’d made to a commissioner where the media minister sought to initiate a state examination of RTÉ’s fuel protest coverage. 

Patrick O'Donovan didn't admit secret call with Coimisiún na Meán about media examination

During controversy over his “sinister” comments about media, Patrick O’Donovan didn’t admit he had already secretly called a Coimisiún na Meán commissioner to see if he as media minister could trigger a state “examination” of RTÉ fuel protest coverage he didn’t like. 

Comment: That train from Dublin up to Sandy Row

St Patrick’s Day 2010 and I’m pulling a black Lyle and Scott sweater over a yellow Ralph Lauren polo and going to get the train from Dublin to Belfast.

'On a strictly confidential basis': senior civil servant sent document to Collison brother-funded think tank

“On a strictly confidential basis” a senior civil servant sent a confidential draft document to a lobbyist at the billionaire Collison brothers-funded Progress Ireland – whose board includes the civil servant’s former boss at his department. 

Coimisiún na Meán chair changed score on €20 million Hong Kong tender, described as 'conspirator' in probe

The head of the Irish media regulator was described as a “conspirator” during a Hong Kong parliamentary probe – but claims he blew the whistle on “political interference” in a controversial €20 million contract award.