Polo-necked John McGuirk, who fronts illiberal website Gript, is a serial liar and promoter of hatred, and an occasional racist
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Detective Sergeant who made protected disclosure about under-regulated phone-tracing and then served time for harassment of DPP official, claims multiple breaches of her human rights and “systemic institutional failure”, in complaint recently rejected by European Court of Human Rights
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London extradition hearing was the last stand of either Wikileaks founder or Western Intelligence Imperialism, and awaits January decision By Caroline Hurley Queensland-born Julian Assange (49) founded Wikileaks in 2006. Four years later it published several huge and devastating leaks provided by US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, including: the Afghanistan war logs, the Iraq […]
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Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has come to be known as a leaker. The hashtag #leotheleak has trended on Twitter on several occasions after Varadkar was accused of publishing things he shouldn’t. That Leo leaks however hasn’t yet been proven—or become a political liability for the tánaiste. That may change with evidence from a healthcare whistleblower that Varadkar, while taoiseach, leaked a confidential document to a personal associate.
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See below : The Press Ombudsman has upheld part of a complaint that Village magazine breached the Code of Practice of the Press Council of Ireland. The complaint was made under Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice. Other parts of the complaint are not upheld. Among the issues that have delayed […]
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Whistleblower says key witnesses and evidence omitted from Banking Inquiry and prepares for a public battle.
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The meaning of civilisation
When Ibrahim Al Sabe reached Eftalou beach, on the legend-suffused island of Lesbos in Greece, he was soaking wet, but indescribably happy to be alive. The engine of the rubber dinghy, carrying 45 Syrian refugees, had stopped working five times during the four-mile journey. The boat started to fill with water and almost went under. […]
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Lyrical bees
In the Sticks: Loss of habitat and food threatens a one-time harbinger of Spring – Shirley Clerkin
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What’s your beef, horse?
The media, politicians, the IFA and the CAP promote beef rather than plant foods, to the detriment of health, the environment and the poor – Frank Armstrong
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The old Irish Times website was much better than the new one – Frank Schnittger
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We’re still watching it, but everything else has changed – Richard Callanan
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The Phoenix – almost serious
The great magazine survivor divides commentators – Gerard Cunningham
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Must try harder
Investigative journalism in the North is ill-served on-air and in print – Anton McCabe
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Barefoot and masterful
Bunker Roy explains his solar-engineering college and castigates the vested-interest aid industry – Samuel McManus
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Pacific gyre
Revolting plastic ocean morass covers an area twice the size of the USA – John Gibbons
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The media must challenge power and the state, and resist interference and regulation – Harry Browne
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We’ve become used to the idea that a society based on loans is normal and sustainable – Paul Ferguson
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Councillor Seamie Moore got a judge’s parking vision seen to and avoided a fine he should have paid.
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From Bridge to Gulf
How Mary McAleese’s post-presidential embrace of UAE institutions jars with the bridge-building that defined her presidency
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State anchoring its flagship emergency energy asset, in County Clare, to an environmental crime scene and a non-existent root of title
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Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state
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Asymmetry cannot be replaced in an afternoon
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Use of the army in support of the Garda rested on a mixture of custom, convenience, delegated regulations and constitutional assumption rather than explicit statutory authority, until the fuel protests and statutory panic ended all that
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How public cash funding Expressway shadow fleet has been exposed using the State’s own real-time tracking data
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The Irish Times’ Pat Leahy is the establishment’s favourite storyteller