'NOT FOR DISCLOSURE': NHS consultant report on needless hip surgeries on children – in full

This draft report was delivered to CHI management in January. Months later affected families have neither seen the report nor been contacted by CHI. Minister for health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said she hasn’t seen the report. The Ditch is now publishing the report in full.

Comment: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are attacking democracy

In September 2023 Michael Healy Rae was walking on Kildare Street when he encountered a small group of protesters.

Arms lobbyist also director of operations for airline transporting IDF munitions

The operations manager for a group that lobbies government for Lockheed Martin is also director of flight operations for an airline shipping weapons to the Israel Defense Forces.

Nearly 60 sexual misconduct complaints against gardaí since 2022, 18 investigations ongoing

Gardaí have faced nearly 60 complaints of sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct over the past three years – with three cases forwarded for criminal prosecution.

NHS consultant report: Dublin hospitals conducted unnecessary operations on child patients

Nearly 80 percent of hip operations at a Children’s Health Ireland hospital were unnecessary according to a leaked expert report obtained by The Ditch.

Lobbyists 'standing up for Israel' demanded controversial antisemitism definition

A lobbying group dedicated to “standing up for Israel” wrote to government last year requesting the Irish state adopt a controversial definition of antisemitism – and the Department of Justice assured the lobbyists that Ireland’s hate speech legislation would address some of their concerns. 

Comment: The Occupied Territories Bill – and its misrepresentation – is a matter of sovereignty

Micheál Martin has repeatedly misrepresented the status of legislation that would ban trade with Israeli settlements deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

'lt would be a political choice': attorney general's unpublished Occupied Territories Bill advice in full

Late last October attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Roderic O'Gorman. In his letter Fanning gave the government ministers advice on the Occupied Territories Bill – legislation that has been blocked by successive governments for the last seven years.

Former Guantanamo Bay chief legal counsel leads US agency hired to help restructure Irish defence forces

The former chief legal counsel for Guantanamo Bay’s detention camps leads the US agency the Irish Department of Defence has hired to advise Ireland on expanding the state’s military. 

Attorney general's counsel: Ireland could legally defend ban on Israeli settlement investments

Legal counsel appointed by the attorney general approved an opposition bill banning the state investing in companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements – but government has blocked the legislation since 2023. 

Attorney general's unpublished advice: replacing Occupied Territories Bill is a ‘political choice’

The attorney general told government that replacing the Occupied Territories Bill rather than amending it would be a "political choice" and not a legally necessary one.

German national airline resumes munitions flights through Irish territory to Israel

Two flights carrying parts for the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) F-35 fighter jet flew through Irish territory on their way to Israel earlier this month.