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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
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Whistleblower says key witnesses and evidence omitted from Banking Inquiry and prepares for a public battle.
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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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In the Sticks: Loss of habitat and food threatens a one-time harbinger of Spring – Shirley Clerkin
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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
The old Irish Times website was much better than the new one – Frank Schnittger
We’re still watching it, but everything else has changed – Richard Callanan
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The great magazine survivor divides commentators – Gerard Cunningham
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Investigative journalism in the North is ill-served on-air and in print – Anton McCabe
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Bunker Roy explains his solar-engineering college and castigates the vested-interest aid industry – Samuel McManus
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Revolting plastic ocean morass covers an area twice the size of the USA – John Gibbons
The media must challenge power and the state, and resist interference and regulation – Harry Browne
We’ve become used to the idea that a society based on loans is normal and sustainable – Paul Ferguson
The interdepartmental Rubik’s cube of work permissions for migrants yields a passive income for the official account owners from the labour of vulnerable non-European workers who have to risk life-and-limb while working without insurance, leading the basic payment per delivery for a Deliveroo worker in Ireland to drop from €4.39 to €2.90
On the day of the local elections Anton McCabe looks at the prospects for revival of the Assembly.
Why Greens are blue: the facts show the Greens’ record in Government is deplorable.
As he prepares to address Seanad Éireann, Frank Connolly looks at the record of the former Taoiseach
MacSharry is very adamant that he is “his own man” and, in a strange way, given his strong footprint pedigree in Fianna Fail, he may in fact be better off being outside of the party. He has surfaced a very real issue in policy terms for the party he once belonged to — the precise […]
