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By Frank Connolly. Planning Tribunal costs as well as findings based on James Gogarty’s evidence are being successfully challenged (Oct 14). IT is bizarre that the very people whose wrongdoing gave birth to the long-running Flood/Mahon tribunal into planning and payments may yet get the Supreme Court to reverse the decision to withhold payment of […]
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By Michael Taft. Tax cuts and tax increases, spending cuts and spending increases, a little taken off here, a little bit added there: what is the story of Budget 2015? What is the narrative arc? Is there one? Like in a pointillist painting, if we concentrate on the particular dots we can’t see the image. […]
Village has taken the Irish Examiner to the Press Ombudsman over its misreport of the Mark Dearey case against Village which Dearey dropped in April after the parties agreed non-financial terms including a reiteration of an apology. Village had already given for a mistake but no concession of the alleged defamation for which Dearey had […]
By Constantin Gurdgiev (November 2014). Of the 196 appointments to state boards made by the current Coalition, only 35 resulted from open public competition. Pay increments for civil servants – for length of service not performance – remain in place. Only .75% of civil servants received less than three out of five in the […]
By Ruth Cullen The Irish Times was once seen as the paper of record. But its coverage in some social areas like abortion shows it to be more engaged in agendism than journalism, less a paper of record than a paper of advocacy. Cynics, of course, would say with AJ Liebling, “freedom of the press […]
By Frank Connolly. The multi-million scandal surrounding the illegal dumping of waste in county Wicklow is another legacy left to the new environment minister, Alan Kelly, by his predecessor, Phil Hogan and another reason why the latter’s proposed elevation to the post of European Commissioner has been questioned. In October last, Nessa Childers, […]
While public services haven’t targeted the long-term unemployed their privatisation betrays an agenda to sideline education and training