Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Ireland

Journalist and Writer at RTÉ

Political staff @RTENews 📺 📻 🖊 Ex: @RTEnewsatone @morningireland @irishexaminer political correspondent @BostonCollege #EmergingVoices 2010

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Narrative around 'Grace' case suits those who failed her

5 days ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

"It really is so hard to follow if you haven't been involved, and I just think it’s such a shame, because that actually really suits the people who failed Grace. "It suits the HSE. It suits those about whom findings have been made, because they’re [the findings in the commission's report] just so hard to find."These are the words of 'Paula', one of two Grace foster home abuse whistleblowers, who spoke with RTÉ Radio's Today with Claire Byrne programme on Friday.
More questions raised as 'Grace' case report published

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

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'Grace' report comes after years of concerns and scrutiny

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

The Farrelly Commission is a State investigation into alleged physical and sexual abuse at a foster home in the southeast of the country. It is chaired by its sole member, senior counsel Marjorie Farrelly, and follows a number of HSE reports into the same case. The Commission was established in Spring 2017 and was asked to examine two specific issues - the 'Grace' case and separate allegations surrounding 46 other foster placements at the same home over the same period.
Fines of up to €50,000 included in new Sex for Rent bill

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Landlords who ask vulnerable tenants for sex instead of rent could face fines of up to €50,000 under a new opposition bill seeking to ban the coercive practice. A technical group of Labour, Social Democrats and Green Party senators today called on the Government to support the bill, saying they want to see it introduced by September when the next cohort of students will need places to live.
Govt's 'over-arching priority' is to protect Irish jobs

3 weeks ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith |Cathy Halloran

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government's "over-arching priority" is to protect Irish jobs amid concerns US President Donald Trump's incoming tariff plans could see pharmaceutical and other firms reduce their presence in Ireland. Speaking to RTÉ News at an event in Limerick, the Taoiseach said "tariffs are bad for the world economy and a trade war will be very bad for the world economy".
Minister to recommend cttee examine O'Farrell inquiry

1 month ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith |says Donohoe

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has said he "cannot ignore" the decision of a scoping inquiry into the hit-and-run death of Shane O'Farrell to not open a public inquiry into the case. Minister O'Callaghan repeated the position during a Dáil debate, saying he is likely to instead refer the matter to the Oireachtas Justice Committee when it is established.
Bacik accuses FG and FF of misleading voters on housing

1 month ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith |Mícheál Lehane |Paul Cunningham

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has accused both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil of misleading voters during the general election by continuing to claim that 40,000 homes would be completed by the end of 2024. She said the final figure was 30,000. The Dublin Bay South deputy said Taoiseach Micheál Martin finally accepted last year that 50,000 homes were required to be completed every year - a long held Labour Party view.
PBP seeks support on home insulation exemption

1 month ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

People Before Profit-Solidarity has called for cross-party support for a new bill attempting to allow home insulation to be exempt from planning permission. The bill was launched after recent reports that one Dublin family has been ordered by the local council to remove an external insulation wrap costing thousands of euro as it currently requires planning permission to be put in place.
Suggestions McGregor may seek election won't fly - Murphy

1 month ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Suggestions that MMA fighter Conor McGregor is seeking to become a candidate in the presidential election later this year will not fly, People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has said. "I think they [Mr McGregor's suggested ambitions] will go very very far in a social media site owned by Elon Musk, where a lot of people retweet him and boost him and so on, but I really don't think they'll go very far in terms of actually winning public support.
'Demonisation of data centres' needs to end

1 month ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the "demonisation of data centres" needs to end if Ireland is to keep up in the tech and artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Speaking at a data centre-linked company called Hanley Energy on the final day of his St Patrick's Day festival trip to Washington DC, the Fianna Fáil leader said in his view Ireland should "step up" on the issue.