THE Irish taxpayer has paid out more than €2.4 million in pension payments for former MEPs over the past four years. Twenty-seven former Euro MPs are currently ...
THE Department of Foreign Affairs spent more than €25,000 moving paintings and other artwork when the Irish Ambassador to Vienna moved to a new diplomatic resid...
THE Department of Finance had to make a series of last minute changes in Budget 2017 to ensure tax dodgers could not use a series of loopholes to avoid being na...
THE government was warned it may be squeezing smokers too hard ahead of the latest price increase for cigarettes in the latest budget. Taxing the old reliable m...
A BIGGER space for the “father of the House”, a Senator’s files and personal belongings packed up and moved to reception, and a dispute betwee...
The great thing about using FOI for journalism is that it is document-based and documents, particularly official ones, are very hard to argue with. The great we...
WITH a record 600+ people on trolleys in emergency rooms, it seems timely to post this set of documents on the so-called Winter Initiative to tackle overcrowdin...
WE KNOW that four major world cities – Paris, Mexico, Madrid, and Athens – have agreed to ban all diesel cars and trucks from their centres by 2025....
IT MAY be costing €46,000 in rent every month … but that does not mean the Department of Foreign Affairs have to be happy with their ambassadorial residen...
COUNTY Carlow was the divorce capital of Ireland in 2015, according to the latest figures on marital breakdown from the Courts Service. There were 68 divorce ap...
