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Mahon, the media and Olivia Mitchell.
By Michael Smith. It was never really reasonable to rely on the sort of minds that took 15 years and up to €300m to deal with an ‘urgent’ examination of corruption in one county to then produce a radical and dynamic report. The Mahon Report nails easy targets among the rezoners: four dead dinosaurs (three […]

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Treaty about currency stability and confidence – leading to growth YES By Lucinda Creighton: It’s all about generating confidence, so we can borrow and spend The Stability Treaty is about ensuring that we sustain a stable euro, which will lead to recovery and growth. It is about restoring confidence abroad and enhancing the influence we have […]

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Priory Hall is no exception.
By Lenny Antonelli. The Government has launched a public consultation on building control following the high-profile evacuation of the Priory Hall development in north Dublin due to fire safety defects. But the proposed changes are nothing more than a paper exercise that will do little to boost the number of on-site building inspections. The new […]

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Just fix it
Remove corruption and developer-centredness from planning and local government – Catherine Murphy

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Call for Coombe inquiry
Husband’s forty-year quest for truth about wife’s death following anaesthetic – Frank Connolly

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A regular miscellany from the North – Anton McCabe

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In the bath – Seán Quinn
Seán Quinn lay back in the gilt bathtub that he had got the Quinn Group to buy for him, and was hiding from Anglo, and reflected on how honest he was. I am a very honest man, he thought, decent and humble, wrecked by Anglo. I don’t use a mobile phone. I play cards in […]
