Because Department of Defence officials understood the risk that arms manufacturers could start setting the terms of Irish defence procurement, they encouraged Helen McEntee to give the keynote at an arms lobbyist’s conference.
The Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) moved more than €3 million out of its members’ protection fund without approval at an AGM – with a former president of the league describing the transfer as a “smash and grab”.
It’s said that a frog in a slowly heating pot of water won't notice it's being boiled alive. You hear this as an apologue for a shortcoming of mankind, our tendency to ignore impending catastrophe because we're not in immediate danger.
After an ex-Israeli spy visited the Irish media regulator and met with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill – discussing a role for an Irish Jewish organisation at the regulator – Coimisiún na Meán has appointed the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland to flag "illegal antisemitic material" online.
A US military plane used to transport soldiers landed at Shannon Airport on its way back from an Israeli airbase in the same week a UN inquiry found Israel “deliberately carried out acts inflicting death on Palestinian children”.
The High Court has ruled a vulture fund illegally evicted a woman and her son with special needs from their home of 20 years – during an action gardaí and an asset management company linked to a convicted criminal assisted at.
South Dublin County Council reluctantly caved to legal pressure and will hold a meeting about proposed council rent hikes – but its unelected chief executive has said, even if councillors vote against the increases, rents will rise regardless.
Disgraced property developer Cathal O'Connor told the Sligo County Council chief executive he was “110 percent confident” of councillors voting through a development plan close to what he wanted – a “developer-led” scheme.
The Ditch can reveal that the Powerscourt Hotel first hosted Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman’s secretive Dialog event in 2018.
Palantir founder Peter Thiel will host a gathering this August at the Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow – with 87 of the 222 guests listed as first-time attendees.
Last week The Ditch published a story about an internal report examining the work of seven Children’s Health Ireland consultants.
You get a sense of how theatrical parliamentary politics is while perched in the gallery above the Dáil chamber.