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A Gaelscoil is under inexplicable pressure to move from an ideal site in Wicklow to an overpriced, small, and awkward site in Rathnew.

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Fiona’s no rezona
Councillor Fiona McLoughlin Healy has risked her reputation challenging the low standards ingrained in Kildare County Council

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Villager, July/August 2017
A Freedom of Information Request showed that Simon Coveney and his officials knew that Departmental figures on housing completions were out, by up two thirds as it turns out, because they relied unduly on ESB-connection figures. Minutes of a meeting betewen the Housing Department and CSO shows the parties knew the figures were debased in February, though they used them up until May, confirming Village’s nasty April cover alleging Coveney was lying about housing completions.

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N-AMAteur mistake: Kilcooley Abbey
One of the more intriguing stories surrounding the property disposals of NAMA concerns the sale of the historic Kilcooley Abbey Estate in Gortnahoe, County Tipperary. In late 2013, the estate comprising an 18th century mansion, 220 acres of farmland, five staff houses, courtyard buildings, a lake, boathouse and a 12th century Cistercian abbey and chapel […]

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A mountain of broken skeletons
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Zbigniew Brzezinski and his ilk

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While Kildare’s Director of Planning claims he is lobbied ‘everywhere’, a gap in lobbying legislation gives Council officials discretion not to require lobbyists to register

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DUPed commentators
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The DUP is no closer to the backwoods, on corruption or abortion and LGBT rights, than Fianna Fáil was a decade ago
