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Cianan Brennan

Dublin

Journalist at Irish Examiner

Journalist @irishexaminer. All views my own. DMs open, Threema ID PASBPCSA, [email protected]

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  • 'RTÉ investigates' shows dire practices in privately-run nursing homes

    3 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

    Residents at two privately-run Irish nursing homes were left to sit in their own urine and subjected to manhandling by staff, among many other abuses, a bombshell new investigation shows. will tonight broadcast the result of a months-long undercover investigation at two nursing homes — The Residence in Portlaoise and Beneavin Manor in north Dublin City.

  • Cianan Brennan: How the far right tried to hijack Carlow shooting

    5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

    Online information in 2025 moves at speed. But the tragic events in Carlow on Sunday, where a gunman opened fire in a shopping centre, appear to sum up the perils of unregulated social media discourse, and what State bodies like the gardaí can try to do to mitigate it. By 12.30pm on Monday, gardaí had put out four statements regarding the shooting incident at the Fairgreen Shopping Centre in Carlow Town. The second and fourth were most noteworthy.

  • Extradition of leading Kinahan crime gang figure 'a significant development', senior garda says

    1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

    The extradition of one of the most senior members of the Kinahan crime gang back to Ireland is a "significant development" in disrupting and dismantling international organised crime gangs, one of the country's most senior gardaí has said.

  • Cost of unused x-ray machine at National Gallery trebles, Dáil committee told

    1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

    An unused x-ray machine at the National Gallery of Ireland is set to cost €346,000 to be made operational — nearly three times its initial cost — the Public Accounts Committee has heard.

  • Small State bodies should not have to manage 'complex IT projects', Arts Council to tell Dáil committee

    1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

    The chair of the Arts Council claims small specialist State bodies should not be expected to manage their own “complex IT projects” after €6.5m was spent on an IT system that was never delivered. Maura McGrath is due to tell the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday that the project in question — which was to see five separate IT portals dating from 2008 amalgamated into one centralised grants management system — “was not and is not an optional extra”.

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Cianan Brennan
Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan
12 May 25

RT @johnbradysf: @williamhboney1 Thanks For all your unbelievable work on this issue Martin. As the new chair of PAC I fully intend on dea…

Cianan Brennan
Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan
12 May 25

RT @kenfoxe: One thing I learned about my job this week is that there's an absolute obligation on politicians (and others) to speak to form…

Cianan Brennan
Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan
10 May 25

ASTI to ballot members on Leaving Cert reforms and possible industrial action https://t.co/gfc1WTHXcu