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But it’s only his own old articles by Emma Gilleece David McWilliams has been a household name since 1999 when he invented the term Celtic Tiger. Except he didn’t. Later that year he conceded it was an ex-pat City of London-based analyst called Kevin Gardiner who used the term in a Morgan Stanley report published […]
Fine Gael learns the wrong lessons from the Charleton Tribunal report by Frank Connolly The almost hysterical reaction of her former colleagues to the finding by Justice Peter Charleton that Frances Fitzgerald had done nothing to warrant her resignation from the cabinet in November 2017 is little short of mind-boggling. Instead of focusing on […]
The revelation that the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has failed to disclose “relevant material” to the Commission of Investigation into its controversial sale of its 11.5 billion (£1.24 million) Project Eagle loan portfolio in the North in 2014 will not come as any surprise. Many NAMA watchers have been wondering how the Commission, headed by […]
As the French courts prepare to prosecute Ian Bailey in absentia, there is growing speculation that gardaí targeted him for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in order to protect the real suspect
After evidence emerges of a covert British police unit operating in NI and of police infiltrations of campaigns dating back to 1970, it is time to reopen all the inquiries to see whether covert British police officer ‘Mark Duffy’ arranged for the parachute regiment to run amok in 1972
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Ireland’s new Garda Commissioner has – in the PSNI – been too close for comfort to MI5 and MI6, whose agenda is often inimical to that of the Republic
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Re-enact the events of the missing 21-year-old Kilkenny woman, consult the FBI, be proactive – or nobody new will come forward!