Colm Keena

5 days ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

Data access requests from broadcaster Ryan Tubridy and his agent, Noel Kelly, about the payments controversy that led to departure of Tubridy from the station in 2023 have cost RTÉ more than €100,000 so far. The requests, made under data-protection law that entitles people to see what personal information a body holds about them, were made about a year and a half ago but have not yet been finalised. It is understood there is a dispute about the level of disclosure received to date.

5 days ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

The dispute between Ryan Tubridy and RTÉ that erupted in the summer of 2023 and ended the broadcaster’s ties with the station is not yet over. A data access request from Tubridy and his agent, Noel Kelly, is creating a significant amount of work for the station, has already cost it about €100,000 in legal fees, and has the potential to reignite the 2023 crisis.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

The Commission of Investigation established in 2017 to investigate the care given to a non-verbal woman named “Grace”, who has profound intellectual disabilities, has said the evidence did not exist to support findings she was subjected to sexual, emotional or physical abuse.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

On a lovely sunny morning recently I found myself on Dublin’s Capel Street doing some old-fashioned journalism, knocking on doors looking for the office of a group representing an immigrant community from Asia I wanted to make contact with. The building I thought the office was in had a restaurant on the ground floor and an entrance at the side to the upper floors. The door was open so in I went. My knocking on the first floor elicited no response so I tried the next one up.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

On a lovely sunny morning recently I found myself on Dublin’s Capel Street doing some old-fashioned journalism, knocking on doors looking for the office of a group representing an immigrant community from Asia I wanted to make contact with. The building I thought the office was in had a restaurant on the ground floor and an entrance at the side to the upper floors. The door was open so in I went. My knocking on the first floor elicited no response so I tried the next one up.