Elaine Loughlin

2 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Elaine Loughlin

Tidy Towns groups across the country will no longer have to pay insurance under a new partnership between local authorities and Irish Public Bodies Insurance. The agreement will significantly cut the costs incurred by more than 1,000 active Tidy Towns groups and will enable them to focus their energy and resources on community activities.

5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Elaine Loughlin

America is not China, but Donald Trump's recent actions send out a chilling message to the media, legal community, business world, academia, those involved in the arts, and even government employees. Most disturbingly, moves to silence those with dissenting voices threaten a core tenet laid down in the US constitution, that of free speech, and if continued will have repercussions far beyond the 50 states. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Elaine Loughlin

A whistleblower in the Grace case says she regrets becoming involved in the commission of investigation and has accused the HSE of "defending the indefensible". 'Paula', a synonym given to the whistleblower who has since left social work, said she is in "no way comforted or in no way confident" the system has changed to protect vulnerable people, adding that raising her voice had been "utterly pointless".

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Elaine Loughlin

Funding to support ‚Äúfact-checking" and the "pre-bunking‚ÄĚ of fake news is among the suggestions outlined in a new National Counter Disinformation Strategy. The report, published on Thursday, finds that disinformation has a "corrosive inflation" on everything from trust in public health to democratic institutions, but warns that "eradication" of misinformation is not the goal as the problem will "persist and evolve".

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Elaine Loughlin

The Taoiseach has said there is now a need to "fundamentally reflect" on costly and lengthy commissions of investigation which come up with "deeply unsatisfactory" findings. It comes as a whistleblower in the Grace case has warned others thinking of coming forward with concerns that "the State will try to crush you", in a strongly worded criticism of the final Farrelly Commission report.