Cianan Brennan

Revenue says proportion of bogus self-employment declarations came from public bodies Revenue chair Niall Cody told Public Accounts Committee workers in question were public, as opposed to civil, servants

Revenue says proportion of bogus self-employment declarations came from public bodies

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Residential Tenancies Board head admits rents will rise, 'at least in the short term', under new legislation RTB director Rosemary Steen said it would take months for the impact of the new rules to be seen

Residential Tenancies Board head admits rents will rise, 'at least in the short term', under new legislation

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PAC chair says Drew Harris €600,000 residence remaining empty "defies belief" Former Commissioner Harris left his post last September after a seven-year term.

PAC chair says Drew Harris €600,000 residence remaining empty "defies belief"

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HSE apologises to mother of intellectually disabled adult child over 'threatening' letter Mother seeking residential placement says daughter’s needs have escalated as HSE cites parental obligation and funding constraints

HSE apologises to mother of intellectually disabled adult child over 'threatening' letter

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OPW did not seek legal advice on costs of abandoning €70m children's science museum Public Accounts Committee told €4.8m has been spent on the museum project to date without any tangible return for the State

OPW did not seek legal advice on costs of abandoning €70m children's science museum

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Group behind controversial children's museum pledges to raise €25m for €70m project Last September, the Comptroller and Auditor General revealed the OPW had had no authority to approve the construction of the museum in 2003 but proceeded regardless

Group behind controversial children's museum pledges to raise €25m for €70m project

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Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland

Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland

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Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Committee urges minister to extend payment scheme for healthcare workers with long covid Many of the 159 workers became sick during the so-called ‘meaningful Christmas’ in December 2020, when many pandemic-era social restrictions were briefly relaxed, leading to a massive spike in infecti...

Committee urges minister to extend payment scheme for healthcare workers with long covid

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Cork nurse suffering from long covid could lose home as payment ends The special leave with pay scheme for healthcare workers which was initiated during the pandemic to ensure full pay for those suffering with long covid will end this month

Cork nurse suffering from long covid could lose home as payment ends

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HSE to ditch plans for residential mental health facility at isolated Cork hospital The planned 50-bed unit had been criticised by some mental health advocates locally given its remote location

HSE to ditch plans for residential mental health facility at isolated Cork hospital

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Hostile states may target Ireland during EU presidency, cybersecurity experts warn Experts warn Ireland will face heightened cyber threats, disinformation risks and AI-driven attacks as it prepares for its 2026 EU presidency

Hostile states may target Ireland during EU presidency, cybersecurity experts warn

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Kilkenny couple did the public an enormous service in bringing State to heel over phone mast decision Kilkenny couple Peter and Doreen Thomson have also shown that, in the Government’s current attempts to stifle access to review of questionable decisions made by State actors, we are heading down a ver...

And some analysis... If you're hearing about the Govt looking to do away with judicial reviews for the 'common good', have a read of this

Kilkenny couple did the public an enormous service in bringing State to heel over phone mast decision

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Planning board drops defence of case taken against granting of permission to build telecommunications mast An Coimisiún Pleanála told Peter Thomson, who had initially objected to the construction of a telecommunications mast adjacent to his home, that it would no longer be opposing the quashing of the orig...

A remarkable end to a case I first covered four years ago...

Planning board drops defence of case taken against granting of permission to build telecommunications mast

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No sponsor to build €70m science museum OPW remains legally obliged to carry out the museum's construction after giving a legally-binding commitment to do so in 2013

No sponsor to build €70m science museum

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Landlords issue 5,400 eviction notices as rent rules face fresh scrutiny RTB data shows a sharp rise in termination notices but indicates rent caps continue to slow inflation for existing tenants

Landlords issue 5,400 eviction notices as rent rules face fresh scrutiny

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Arts Council's botched €6.5m IT project leaves 'accountability' issues still unresolved Dáil Public Accounts Committee’s review of the project to install a single IT interface for the Arts Council pulled before it was delivered in 2022, noted problems with 'governance, performance measur...

Arts Council's botched €6.5m IT project leaves 'accountability' issues still unresolved

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Greyhound racing 'very dependent' on State funding for prize money, minister's report finds Under the terms of the fund for 2025, greyhound racing can allocate a maximum of 60% of its State funding towards prize money, and horseracing can use up to 80%

Greyhound racing 'very dependent' on State funding for prize money, minister's report finds

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'No justification' for State data-collection powers in proposed bill, say experts The National Cyber Security Bill will also give “extremely wide” internet-blocking powers to the State's cyber security unit if passed, the director of Digital Rights Ireland has warned.

'No justification' for State data-collection powers in proposed bill, say experts

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Concern over rise in number of private residential centres for people living with intellectual disability The figures, released to Social Democrats TD for Cork East Liam Quaide, indicated that the reliance on the private sector to care for some of the most vulnerable people in society is growing.

Concern over rise in number of private residential centres for people living with intellectual disability

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Former CEO of Peter McVerry Trust spent €350k on driveway and peacock enclosure, PAC told The Oireachtas committee heard that two of the trust's bank accounts had been almost emptied of roughly €1.5m, with that money going to two companies, one of which Pat Doyle had planned to work once h...

Some fairly jawdropping stuff coming out at an all-day session of the PAC today re the PeterMcVerry debacle...

Former CEO of Peter McVerry Trust spent €350k on driveway and peacock enclosure, PAC told

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CEO insists Uisce Éireann is 'value for money' after State body paid €13.m in bonuses last year 'I would say that we definitely deliver good services around the country,' chief executive Niall Gleeson told the Public Accounts Committee

CEO insists Uisce Éireann is 'value for money' after State body paid €13.m in bonuses last year

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The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.

Fianna Fáil refuses to say how much was paid to Ivan Yates for media training for Niall Collins Party declined to say how much of the €42,700 special secretarial allowance was spent on fees to Mr Yates

Fianna Fail refuses to say how much was paid to Ivan Yates for media training for Niall Collins

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Remind me again what party Ivan Yates was a Minister for?

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.

November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

Data Protection Commission beware: Poachers aren't always the best gamekeepers The Public Appointment Service's decision to hire a Meta defector creates a lot of pitfalls, argues Cianan Brennan

Data Protection Commission beware: Poachers aren't always the best gamekeepers

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'Significant progress' made in National Children’s Hospital's internal controls, State body claims The project first broke ground nine years ago and its budget has ballooned from less than €600m to its current estimate of €2.24bn

'Significant progress' made in National Children’s Hospital's internal controls, State body claims

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Department 'fully satisfied' with appointment of ex-Meta lobbyist to Data Protection Commission In recent years, Meta has been slapped with multiple fines by the Data Protection Commission totalling well over €1bn for data breaches

This appointment earlier this month slipped broadly under the radar. It's likely it would have caused a furore even two or three years back...

Department 'fully satisfied' with appointment of ex-Meta lobbyist to Data Protection Commission

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