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Half the CEOs of commercial state companies earn in excess of €250,000 a year despite pay ceiling By Conor O’Carroll. Just over €75 million has been spent on the salary and benefits of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of commercial state companies in the past decade, a Village investigation has revealed. The total salary of half […]
Ireland disgraces itself over the most notorious at-large sex criminal in sports history. By Irvin Muchnick George Gibney, the story that won’t die, is also the story that won’t live – or at least isn’t given the oxygen to breathe. The latest example follows last November’s headlines about the status of investigations by the Garda […]
Minister for Housing sitting on Mulcahy Report on old planning dodginess for seven years, but it’s ongoing
Men have never received apology and many illicit fi ndings remain undisturbed
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By Conor O’Carroll. More than 17,000 dwellings are currently stuck in the judicial review process, according to property group Irish Institutional Property (IIP). The figures were shared with Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien in November last year as part of a submission made by the lobby group in relation to the Planning and Development Bill […]
By Conor O’Carroll. Almost a third of Office of Public Works (OPW) quality audits of maintenance work on rivers and waterways last year failed to obtain a ‘good’ or ‘very good’ rating, according to documents released to Village Magazine. While the majority of audit reports were scored favourably, a number of reports also received a […]