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    Church in the Lurch

    Developer TIO, including Nama, denies damaging church foundations and fabric and An Taisce’s allegation it jumped the gun on commencement notice and works on St Mary’s Church in Dublin’s docklands

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    Planning Tribunal is too kind to itself

    When Mr Justice Feargus Flood – the Planning Tribunal’s original sole member – embarked on his mission for the truth, he was wont to require various parties to provide him with full and frank “narrative statements” to answer the many and varied allegations of wrongdoing made by Mr James Gogarty in an affidavit he had […]

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    Refugee Reality

    Bullying of a child by staff, unauthorised searches of bags and belongings, infestations of vermin, and rooms with no heating and broken windows … just another day in the life of Ireland’s direct provision system. Copies of letters of complaint by asylum-seekers, all of which were upheld after investigation, paint a grim portrait of life […]

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