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Allegations about NAMA in North begin to focus attention on disposal patterns in South. By Frank Connolly

The axis of developers, bankers and politicians is not being adequately probed by Banking Inquiry or media. By Frank Connolly

By Frank Connolly The various controversies surrounding planning and re-zoning irregularities in county Wicklow are mounting not least on the spacious desk of the environment minister, Alan Kelly, who is to decide very soon on the precise nature of an inquiry into all or any of them. Among those against whom serious allegations have been […]

By Frank Connolly As the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is forced to explain that “the Police Service of Northern Ireland is investigating activities relating to the purchase of €1.7bn of its assets, NOT the sale,” its latest controversy has embroiled the North’s first minister, Peter Robinson, in a battle for political survival that may […]

By Anna Victoria Lynch False and damaging rumours are all too regularly spread about migrant people. This is because we often don’t react well to difference and, in particular, it can be more difficult to understand people who have a different culture. The rumours can have negative immediate and long-term effects. They build barriers between […]

By Ronan Burtenshaw As politicians begin to throw around proposals for the last Budget before Fine Gael and Labour face an election, it’s worth remembering that this time is really the only window where citizens are encouraged to engage in economic debate. Even then the space of time is too short and the range of […]

By Frank Connolly The appointment of retired High Court judge, Daniel O’Keeffe, as chairperson of the commission of investigation to examine a series of financial transactions by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in the wake of the Siteserv/IBRC controversy earlier this summer must have the vulture funds and their corporate advisors cowering in their offices […]