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2 days ago | 
irishtimes.com | Ellen Coyne
Seven International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) contracts with commercial accommodation providers were ended in the first four months of the year for reasons including noncompliance with planning, fire safety and other regulations, the Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, has said.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
Ellen Coyne: For my final column, I want to say thank you for reading — and thank you to the many, many women (and one Catholic bishop) who wrote back‘Your thoughts were more brilliant, articulate, nuanced and provoking than anything I could conjure before my deadline.'When I was still just a few months into being a new mother, and still a long way away from finishing my maternity leave, I started writing this column again. I thought it would be a way to cast a hopeful line into another world.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
At a wedding earlier this year, I was seated at a table with a couple from Mexico, who have a child around the same age as my own. We laughed and joked about how, even though they were a hemisphere apart, little children really are all the same. It turns out we had all been scorned for not playing ‘pretend’ to the exacting standards of whatever secret scripted canon little boys have in their imagination.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
A new report published today painted a stark picture of an under-resourced and over-subscribed service for children with some of the most challenging care needs in the country. Special care units are secure accommodation for children aged 11 to 17 who are considered to be a risk to their own health and safety. They are placed in special care only by the High Court in the hopes of stabilising them and keeping them safe.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne |Owen Breslin
Major camogie sponsor rows in behind players in GAA skort controversyAIB appears to back stance ahead of special congress due next weekAisling Maher - with skorts, my choice of what to wear when I play sport is still not in my handsEllen Coyne and Owen BreslinToday at 03:30A key camogie sponsor is understood to be rowing in behind players who want to wear shorts, while other advertisers associated with the Gaelic games have remained silent.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
The tender contract issued by the broadcaster is looking for contractors to “produce and supply branded promotional goods [merchandise and branded material] to promote its brand, services, programmes and events to audiences as part of a framework. The estimated spend is for the potential term of the contract.”The value of the contract, which mentions paper cups, stationary, T-shirts, notebooks, pencils and ballpoint pens, is up to €500,000.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
An Garda Síochána’s National Economic Crime Bureau and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) are currently running an ongoing criminal investigation into Irish betting industry businesses. The probe is examining potential breaches of competition law. It emerged yesterday that the CCPC had used its consumer watchdog powers to carry out “unannounced searches” of some betting businesses.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
Officers from An Garda Síochána's National Economic Crime Bureau have been working with the consumer watchdog to carry out “unannounced searches” of businesses active in the betting industry. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is now appealing for information for anyone who knows about possible anti-competitive practices in the industry, and may be able to offer “cartel immunity” to those who cooperate with its investigation.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
Eight men assembled in the billiards room of Hayes Hotel in Thurles at 3pm on Saturday, November 1, 1884, and created the GAA. The vision Michael Cusack had that day for an organisation that would preserve and protect native Irish sports would go on to become the vanguard of 20th-century cultural nationalism, only growing in fervent tenacity in the wake of Irish independence. The GAA was and always has been an inherently political organisation.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Ellen Coyne
Watchdog in major price-fixing probe of Irish bookiesCCPC’s inquiry is second time it has examined betting sector in two yearsStock image. Photo: GettyThe competition watchdog is carrying out an investigation into the bookmaking industry, the Irish Independent understands. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has confirmed it is in the middle of an ongoing inquiry against betting shops, and that it is considering enforcement action.
