Fianna Fáil junior minister James Browne appointed a party loyalist and constituency ally to a €400-a-meeting state firearms board despite serious concerns raised by the man’s industry colleagues.
The businessman who sold the HSE more than €3 million of unusable hand sanitiser during the Covid-19 pandemic made a profit of at least €1.4 million on the deal.
In the summer of 2021 I visited the Sinn Féin Bookshop and bought the issue of An Phoblacht commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Irish republican hunger strikes.
Fianna Fáil minister of state Niall Collins is to be called as witness in a High Court case – in which he will be asked to account for his alleged intervention in a planning dispute because of a senior party official’s involvement.
A Fine Gael senator failed to register her rental property with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).
Twenty years ago then taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil that after the 11 September attacks, “The world had entered into a new and dangerous era."
Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue was among a group of directors who resigned from the board of a Donegal radio station days after it received a letter from a state body alleging serious financial fraud.
A Social Democrats Dublin City councillor has been letting a converted home gym as a granny flat despite not having planning permission to do so.
Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth asked Cavan County Council to have unemployed people on a government placement carry out work on a site bought by her husband. Smyth was cathaoirleach of the council at the time.
Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth has repeatedly failed to declare her interest in a property she twice claimed to own in planning applications.
Three memories from my time playing Gaelic football as a child.
I don’t believe the judiciary is above criticism. I never have. It probably isn't scrutinised enough and often benefits from the unhealthy deference to authority so prevalent across the Irish establishment.