Cianan Brennan

Audit reveals 'deficiencies in internal control' at IFI A damaging series of administrative errors and irregularities saw the organisation’s entire board stood down in 2023

More credit cards than you could eat, and an uninsured car crash that cost €230,000, to name just two issues raised...

Audit reveals 'deficiencies in internal control' at IFI

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Beaumont hospital went €2.9m overbudget implementing new payroll system Cork Labour TD Eoghan Kenny said it was "disgraceful" that Beaumont had not mentioned the overspend

Word of this overspend wasn't given in advance to the PAC, meaning the officials in attendance were caught cold when confronted with it... Likely not the last you'll hear of it

Beaumont hospital went €2.9m overbudget implementing new payroll system

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Kildare the most expensive county to house international protection applicants at €92 per night Average cost to accommodate an asylum seeker nationwide last year was €83.82 per night

Kildare the most expensive county to house international protection applicants at €92 per night

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Tusla chief said agency had found 'no child protection concerns' around disappearance of Daniel Aruebose Kate Duggan told Dáil Public Accounts Committee she would 'absolutely support' the publication of Tusla’s internal inquiry reports regarding Daniel’s disappearance

Tusla chief says agency found 'no child protection concerns' around disappearance of Daniel Aruebose

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Businessman in dispute with HSE over faulty ventilators wins contract for Galway hydro turbine project Robert Quirke's company Roqu Media International received €14.1m from the HSE to procure 328 ventilators from China at the height of the pandemic, but just 72 ventilators were received, and the device...

Businessman in dispute with HSE over faulty ventilators wins contract for Galway hydro turbine project

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Cost of televising Oireachtas proceedings went over budget by €1.5m last year, PAC told The Public Accounts Committee was also tole that an infamous €336,000 bike shed at Dail Eireann now represents 'the number one attraction for visitors at Leinster House'

Cost of televising Oireachtas proceedings went over budget by €1.5m last year, PAC told

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Consultants earning more than €350k more than doubled over year Some 10 consultants earned more than €500,000 over the 12 months, up from eight in 2022, a HSE internal audit report found

Consultants earning more than €350k more than doubled over year

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'Competency' of State bodies questioned after almost double the contract value spent on IT project The department's general secretary said there had been 'clear justification' for the changes, which had given rise 'to significant added value to the ETB sector' with 'full value for money' having bee...

Competency' of State bodies questioned after almost double the contract value spent on IT project

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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Sweet suffering Jesus

'I am living proof' of hope after homelessness says Focus Ireland worker Marie Farrell plumbed the depths when she became homeless three years ago. But today she is a peer worker with Focus Ireland — the group that helped her get her life together

'I am living proof' of hope after homelessness says Focus Ireland worker

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Vulnerable people in the North or near the Border warned of phone alert test People such as victims of human trafficking or domestic abuse who have 'secret' phones are being warned to silence their phone ahead of Sunday's UK-wide alert test

Vulnerable people in the North or near the Border warned of phone alert test

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Cianan Brennan: Hot school meals mess needs a rational solution The withdrawal of providers due to onerous new conditions around waste and staffing needs to be sorted, and quickly, writes Cianan Brennan

Hot school meals mess needs a rational solution

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We had a horrific emergency involving our kids today and right now I'm just sitting at my computer in a daze and in shock. Thankfully they are okay but others are less fortunate.

Somebody's soundchecking Acquiesce...

Whistleblower told covid inquiry will not take on board protected disclosures Department of Health whistleblower Shane Corr says he has 'incontrovertible evidence' of shortcomings regarding the State’s covid response

Whistleblower told covid inquiry will not take on board protected disclosures

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Trump’s global tariff agenda puts Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry at serious risk Trump’s tariff regime has shaken global trade — and Ireland’s critical pharma sector is bracing for long-term change

Trump’s global tariff agenda puts Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry at serious risk

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Capel St stabbing: How misinformation spread across social media Within minutes, misinformation regarding the attacker, who is an Irish citizen, had begun to spread on various social media platforms

Capel St stabbing: How misinformation spread across social media

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Garda describes 'significant concerns' regarding surgeon arrested for drink-driving Chief Superintendent Padraic Jones told a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry concerning Dr Syed Bukhari that local gardaí in the Cavan region had held 'concerns' regarding the surgeon in the ...

Garda describes 'significant concerns' regarding surgeon arrested for drink-driving

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Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

What else can they accuse Obama of? Capital murder?

i entered last week very skeptical about Epstein conspiracy theories and now I'm wondering if Trump personally walked into the jail and killed him

TD asks why civil service did not notice €1.4m payment gap in just 19 employees' pensions PAC also hears that the number of similarly affected civil servants or ministers is unlikely to be as many as the 13,000 mentioned by Jack Chambers earlier this year

TD asks why civil service did not notice €1.4m payment gap in just 19 employees' pensions

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Government’s appeal of fine over Public Services Card a 'waste of taxpayer’s money', says expert A spokesperson for the Department of Social Protection said that the decision to appeal had been taken on consultation with the Attorney General

Government’s appeal of fine over Public Services Card a 'waste of taxpayer’s money', says expert

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'Hard to envisage' why State agencies disagree on postmasters' employment status, report finds Separately, it emerged on Tuesday that 257 post offices have closed across Ireland over the past decade, 34 of them in Cork

'Hard to envisage' why State agencies disagree on postmasters' employment status, report finds

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Social protection minister takes legal action against Data Protection Commission The department of social protection had not replied to a request for comment at the time of publication

Here we go again...

Department takes legal action against DPC over order to cease processing Public Services Card biometric data

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Personal injury awards fall with new guidelines for payments in effect The Courts Service reported that last year, personal injury awards were down 45% year-on-year from 2023, with the number of such cases also falling by 41% compared with 2019

Personal injury awards fall with new guidelines for payments in effect

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Children waiting up to 13 years for primary care assessment The figures show children's waiting times for an initial psychology, occupational therapy, or physiotherapy assessment

Previously, the HSE had only itemised such waiting lists as '52-weeks+', so anything longer than a year would be listed in the one cohort...

Children waiting up to 13 years for primary care assessment

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from Trump's tariffs letter:

"Her Excellency ... Dear Mr. President"

A screenshot of an article from 2019 in which former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy talks about less space for less rent.

A screenshot of an article in which a renter in a small coliving unit is quoted 2,850 a month for a studio.

Oh great, smaller apartments for less rent, because that always... oh... okay then...

Here’s the report Children’s Health Ireland won’t publish Children’s Health Ireland respects legal advice. The Ditch respects the public interest.

‘There is a continued withholding of information, claiming this to be a human resources report. The reality is very different,’ says one patients’ group about this report.

Children’s Health Ireland won’t publish it.

Here it is in full.

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