Property Stripe co-founder sets out plans for €6 million renovation of derelict Victorian property John Collison has proposed to Laois county council that he will restore and renovate Millbrook House ‘with a mindset of being stewards of this property for the coming generations’
Health Tapes Remarks by DoH officials on leaked recordings ‘an assault on competence of HSE board’, says FinlayDepartment of Health official amends letter of regret to include apology for ‘not appropriate or thought-out’ comments
Health Tapes Reid told Watt to retract ‘unwarranted slurs’ on HSE following health tape revelationsThe soon-to-depart HSE boss warned its secretary general that the ‘disparaging and damaging manner’ in which his staff were referred to on a whistleblower’s recordings had caused bad feeling within the organisation
Ministers approved €53k salary boost for new Horse Racing Ireland chiefSuzanne Eade was appointed to the role late last year on an annual wage of €190,000, despite the starting salary for the position being €137,356
TD said he would ‘sooner go to jail’ than wear face mask Documents released by the Oireachtas describe dozens of breaches of Covid-19 guidelines and aggression towards compliance staff
Tourism Ireland under siege over naming of DerryThe agency was criticised after a social media competition referred to Seamus Heaney’s birthplace as Londonderry
A maskless TD and other staff reported for defying Oireachtas Covid-19 rulesEmails released under FOI reveal that 20 separate public health issues were logged by a single member of the Covid-compliance team over the course of only five hours at the Convention Centre
RSA: priority driver test system for frontline workers has ‘lost all meaning’The Road Safety Authority said that in theory, part-time employee at Penney’s could self-declare as essential, putting huge burden on a strained system
Almost 90,000 ‘did not waits’ left A&E before treatment in 2019Many people who would be better served by GPs, pharmacists and minor injury units turn up in A&E instead, says the HSE
Greens’ Noonan nixed seal-cull plan in favour of compensating fishermenThe pilot scheme to allow hunters to shoot seals from moving with high-powered rifles was deemed ‘politically unacceptable’
Fears Donohoe would be ‘undermined’ led to wage subsidy U-turnDepartment worried that sustained campaign over ‘proprietary directors’ would be bad publicity for minister in run-up to budget
Same Air Corps chopper lost a door when mid-air twiceA report on a door falling off a helicopter in May over the Phoenix Park revealed that the same helicopter had dropped another door over Co Kerry a decade ago
