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For the current partnership Government and its political-allies-in-opposition the end of summer has brought with it some rather unpleasant affairs. And a string of seemingly never-ending, insider scandals rocking the Irish charitable and sports ‘sectors’, is just a small headache, compared to the migraines of Irish economic and tax-policy fiascos. The reason is simple: in […]

The NAMA story is the media gift that keeps on giving. Not a day passes but further damaging revelations emerge of the manner in which the agency charged with selling off the distressed and other assets arising from the State’s property collapse has behaved. Charged with disposing of commercial and residential properties on an enormous […]

Irish politics insincerely enmires itself in the need for joined-up thinking, that ubiquitous cliché. But it skirts around the best place for it: amalgamating our erratic but once again soaring economic genius with other more real agendas – making sure we pursue ends and not just means, that we advance social, environmental, cultural and transparency […]

Children are more than twice as likely to end up in care in one region of the country as they are in another, official figures from the child and family agency Tusla have shown. The records show that the number of children ending up subject to care orders is significantly above the national average in […]

Tax-haven status distorts, globally and domestically

For the OCI head as for Robert Moses and leaders of Console, Rehab, the Central Remedial Clinic and Irish Nationwide, too much power weakly supervised was a recipe for scandal