NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh – set to become government’s housing tsar – registered ownership of his home using the alias “PB McDonnacha” despite taking out a mortgage on the same property in his own name.
Somewhere in Ireland is the manliest man in the country, someone giving a virtuoso performance of the gender, who adheres to all we consider the masculine norm. He’s possibly happy and healthy, unconscious of the criteria he fulfils, that these criteria even exist.
In the past two months a Kildare company sent three shipments of components to the largest supplier of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces.
The Central Bank of Ireland briefed its media team about negative public reaction to its approval of Israeli war bonds and also highlighted the bonds had “no upper limit”.
Four Irish companies are supplying components to the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) biggest arms supplier, according to shipping records uncovered by The Ditch.
Lobbyists looking to deregulate Ireland's housing market so homeowners can build de facto sheds in their gardens without planning permission were offered a meeting with senior government advisers less than 24 hours after sending an introductory email to Micheál Martin.
Internal documents from a lobbying group representing international arms manufacturers reveal plans to target politicians, influence policymakers, and place articles in the media – despite acknowledging the Irish public is not interested in greater spending on arms.
The alleged garda informant who killed law student Shane O’Farrell was convicted of cigarette smuggling in 2007 – The Ditch can reveal – despite previous state probes of the case wrongly finding his first conviction was for theft in 2010.
An Garda Síochána concealed a conviction of a suspected garda informant – received months before he killed cyclist Shane O’Farrell in 2011 – which contradicts the state’s version of the tragic case.
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) won’t confirm if its doctors complied with a legal obligation to refer the spinal and hip surgery scandals to Tusla.
A Dublin-based airline group illegally transported munitions of war to Israel through Irish territory. Some of the goods were flagged as funded by the US.
A few years back I was spending a lot of time in a house in the Liberties. It was the residence of a woman I was dating and her roommate. I use the word residence because it didn’t feel like a home – it felt like the landlord might choose, at any moment, to turn it into an Airbnb.