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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | John McManus
The Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien has committed to closing off the loophole by which errant drivers can avoid being disqualified if they accept a temporary or “ancillary” disqualification instead of penalty points.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | John McManus
Seven years and 700,000 documents later it is tempting to dismiss the commission of investigation into Project Eagle as much ado about nothing. The Government certainly seems on board for this narrative as the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) enters its twilight years and looks set to return a significant surplus to the State. It is not really that simple.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | John McManus
The Taoiseach Micheál Martin has probably had all the unsolicited advice he wants or needs about what he should and should not say to Donald Trump when he meets the US president in the oval office on Wednesday. The low bar for what constitutes a successful meeting set by the public humiliation of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy by Trump and his vice-president JD Vance in the same venue two weeks ago means that the pressure is off.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | John McManus
For reasons best known to himself, the Minister for Justice has decided to float the idea of a publicly accessible database of sex offenders. In the middle of an otherwise uneventful Dáil debate on Wednesday about gender-based violence, Jim O’Callaghan went on something of a tangent and committed to publishing a domestic violence register of those convicted of rape or serious sexual assault. It was clear he wanted it to be public.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | John McManus
The report over the weekend that Intel told the Government that it needed to up its game if it wanted to secure further investment from the US chip maker is a little incongruous given the company’s many problems. It seems that last December Intel wrote to Pascal Donohoe – then minister for public expenditure but now Minister for Finance – warning that the State’s competitiveness as a location for foreign direct investment was under threat.
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