A Fianna Fáil election candidate with a criminal conviction and enforcement action for breaching planning law tried to claim to The Ditch these issues concern a different person with the same name. Shane McGuinness denied he’s being pursued by Louth County Council for illegally converting a garage into a
Fine Gael Justice Minister Helen McEntee appointed a party colleague, who’s running in the upcoming local elections, as a peace commissioner despite his 15 criminal convictions.
The Garda Ombudsman sanctioned a serving garda who referred to Travellers as criminals and suggested a Traveller was sexually attracted to his own family – but the garda remained employed by An Garda Síochána.
A county Leitrim Fine Gael local election candidate has 15 criminal convictions over the last quarter-century.
The company contracted to manage garda staff recruitment was forced to pay almost €6 million to its workers after a British revenue investigation found it had breached minimum wage law. An Garda Síochána awarded Staffline, whose Ireland-based senior management team was involved in founding a defunct unionist political party,
Maybe an old world is dying, like Antonio Gramsci told us, like Ursula von der Leyen is telling us, like those for whom Ireland’s neutrality is an anachronism unfit to withstand the threat of a barbarous non-west are telling us.
A senior garda accused a sergeant who brought him a report on alleged garda corruption of “neglect of duty” and “underhand action”.
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) – in correspondence marked “urgent and confidential” – has confirmed the “potentially significant” patient safety issues caused by the use of non-medical grade springs in surgery at Temple Street Children's Hospital.
The Ditch can reveal that a county Westmeath man pleaded guilty this month to possession of a shotgun last year that should’ve been in garda custody.
“Prime minister Netanyahu, let me say this to you this evening, the Irish people couldn’t be clearer: we are repulsed by your actions – ceasefire now and let the aid flow safely,” said taoiseach Simon Harris at Fine Gael’s Ard Fheis.
The garda press office changed a contradictory statement about alleged garda involvement in the midlands drug trade.
An old joke: asking what’s the difference between apples and oranges, the answer being there’s no such thing as apple bastards. An acquaintance once told it to my family and was embarrassed when he found out my father’s a Protestant.