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

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