Ryan Tubridy’s evidence to the Oireachtas Committees displays his personal values that have also characterised his broadcasting career – sadly they, and RTÉ’s, are shallow and materialistic. By J Vivian Cooke Ryan Tubridy volunteered to give an exhausting full day of evidence to two Oireachtas committees – (Public Accounts and the Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sports […]
The hands of former Attorney General Paul Gallagher and of the property industry are all over the Planning Bill By J Vivian Cooke The Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2022 The Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2022 attempts to bring clarity to the legal underpinnings of the planning system which are currently scattered across numerous […]
Having promised to provide box office viewing, today’s Public Accounts Committee failed to deliver meaningful answers to important questions. By Conor O’Carroll After three hours of questioning by the Public Accounts Committee, Ryan Tubridy and his agent, Noel Kelly, emerged largely unscathed following a failure by the committee to ask direct, pointed questions that reached […]
Jeffrey Donaldson has set up a consultation panel to formulate his Party’s view on the Framework. The answer he hopes for is obvious. All eight are DUP pragmatists
On 21 February two senior Council officials met Marry and Sheils to discuss the findings of the report, including that the Council had made payments to a company for jobs that it had not carried out and withheld payments due to P Sheils Plant Hire for work that it had carried out on foot of successful tenders