Housing minister Darragh O’Brien’s brother was among three county councillors who intervened in a planning application submitted by one of the co-defendants in the Regency Hotel attack case.
Having failed to declare his ownership of 13 rental properties, Fingal county councillor Ted Leddy has had two new ethics declarations uploaded to the council's website – failing in each case to acknowledge the new versions.
Earlier this year The Ditch reported that Leo Varadkar is letting out his two-bedroom Castleknock, west Dublin apartment for €1,600 a month. So let’s take a look at cheaper two-bedroom rental apartments in cities with populations similar to Dublin.
‘To destroy the concept of motherhood: that is revolutionary.’ - Simone de Beauvoir
Fianna Fáil senator Erin McGreehan twice failed to declare her directorship of a family company she falsely claimed had been dissolved.
Imagine living in a country where the evidence of one senior police officer could be used to convict you of membership of an unlawful organisation before a criminal court without a jury.
Fianna Fáil junior minister Niall Collins paid a construction company owned by a tax defaulter €61,000 in state funds – from an allowance for PR and training.
Ex-junior minister Robert Troy’s constituency and party colleague failed to declare his directorship of a property company.
Fine Gael councillor Ted Leddy failed to declare his ownership of 13 rental properties in Cavan and Dublin.
Fine Gael junior minister Josepha Madigan defaulted on the mortgage of an investment property.
Fine Gael minister of state Josepha Madigan has never declared her ownership of a commercial property since she was elected to the Dáil in 2016. TDs are required under ethics acts to declare their property interests annually. Madigan was required to declare her interest in this property even if it
Let’s emancipate ourselves from political correctness.