An outsourcing company paid at least €210 million in state contracts since 2012 is charging the HSE almost €30 an hour per worker for a major contract – while these workers are paid the minimum wage, less than half that.
An army captain court-martialled for illegal smuggling has been promoted to the rank of commandant.
The state knows a threat when it sees one.
Donegal County Council applied the label "DO NOT USE UNDER ENHANCED SCHEME" to vital evidence in applications to the state mica scheme – with affected homeowners subsequently having their applications downgraded to cheaper grant options.
Four years into the mica crisis the Department of Housing didn’t know what measures had been taken to ensure construction materials in affected counties were fit for use and compliant with EU regulations.
A government minister and senior council officials didn’t know who was responsible for quality checks on construction materials at the centre of the mica crisis – an issue on which the European Commission has begun legal proceedings against Ireland.
A senior garda claimed former Policing Authority chair Josephine Feehily used her ex-garda relative to secretly vet him for promotion.
We used to call them counterrevolutionaries. Some would’ve called them petty bourgeois. Now we call them centrist dads.
A woman is suing the former head of the Garda National Protective Services Bureau in the High Court over an alleged incident that happened while he was a serving garda.
The attorney general told Darragh O’Brien it may be legally and morally justifiable to require banks to contribute to the state mica scheme because of the benefits they receive.
He warned there would be ‘serious consequences from a public finance perspective’.
Attorney general Rossa Fanning admitted the state mica scheme “may be of limited value” to many homeowners with semi-detached properties.