Government appointed Designer Group CEO and personal friend of Paschal Donohoe, Michael Stone, to chair an inner-city regeneration body – despite Stone hoarding development sites in the Fine Gael minister’s home constituency.
Paschal Donohoe has refused to explain what he discussed during a two-hour meeting with Designer Group CEO Michael Stone in August 2020.
A second non-performing mortgage of ex-junior minister Damien English was sold to a vulture fund. As was the case with English’s first distressed mortgage, the ex-junior minister has managed to maintain ownership of the property.
Fine Gael minister of state Damien English lied about his home ownership to secure planning permission for a new home.
Leo Varadkar and Darragh O’Brien’s housing conference is to be dominated by property lobbyists – including the group that has claimed credit for selling the idea of strategic housing developments to government.
Fine Gael minister of state Damien English has not declared his ownership of a residential property for more than a decade. The Meath West TD defaulted on mortgage repayments for the house and four years ago the loan was transferred to a vulture fund. English however managed to maintain his
I don’t care about decency. At least not the decency we speak of when it comes to elected officials nor the standards we use to measure their moral probity. And I don’t care for Micheál Decency Martin’s time as taoiseach.
The DPP only requested a file on the death of a man in garda custody following the intervention of a TD. This course of action by the DPP is highly unusual with the common practice involving gardaí sending the file without a request being made.
Gardaí in Waterford gave statements concerning the death of a man in their custody that contradicted medical professionals who attended the scene.
Fianna Fáil has as good as admitted they don’t get housing.
Since he wouldn’t tell us, nor was he asked, here’s what Pat Davitt and his wife, two of the lesser spoken-of victims of Ireland’s housing crisis, own.
Ex-Fine Gael taoiseach John Bruton’s “right-hand man” has built an international property empire – which includes two palatial Dublin 6 properties – that brings in €139,800 in rent a year.