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Scandals we need to remember

12 September 2026

Renowned Irish journalist Frank Connolly exposed some of the biggest scandals that rocked the political establishment and led to tribunals of inquiry and the resignation of at least one Taoiseach. Here Mícheál Mac Donncha interviews him about corruption then and now. Free article

No political will to tackle housing crisis under Finance Minister Michael Noonan, says Pearse Doherty

3 January 2017

Supporters of the Home Sweet Home housing campaign and the Apollo House occupation in Dublin marched on Tuesday to the office of Finance Minister Michael Noonan to hand in a petition calling for action on NAMA properties Free article

DUP must urgently restore public confidence in the political process

2 January 2017

All of this is so much bigger than the DUP leader’s fitness for office. There are big decisions to make – and very little time. Free article

‘Home Sweet Home’ asks supporters to join in march to Finance Minister’s office – Tuesday 12 noon

2 January 2017

The state has failed to engage with the campaigners and residents in Apollo House, leaving residents and those supporting them feeling uncertain about their future Free article

Arlene Foster must step aside to allow ‘robust’ investigation into RHI debacle, says Martin McGuinness in New Year message

1 January 2017

Public confidence in North’s political institutions grievously undermined by the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal and the DUP’s failure to deal with it Free article

Meeting the challenge of 2017 – Gerry Adams’s New Year message

31 December 2016

DUP and Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil serving their own interests and damaging credibility Free article

US border agents with Homeland Security ask visitors for social media profiles

28 December 2016

Programme is billed as voluntary but civil liberties groups fear many will feel under pressure to comply Free article

Phonsie Mac Fhirleigheann, south Derry H-Blocks Blanketman, laid to rest in County Meath

28 December 2016

‘No words could ever do justice to the energy and efforts that were invested by Phonsie into the republican project right up until last week’ Free article

Irish victims of London police spy scandal demand inclusion in Westminster inquiry

22 December 2016

‘I’m hoping to find out why I was targeted in Ireland by one of the most elite undercover officers of the British state’ Free article

Make 2017 a springboard to raise international support for Irish unity

21 December 2016

‘Building Alliances for a Europe of Solidarity’, European Left 5th Congress in Berlin – Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA on the case for Left unity and Irish unity Free article

Stormont crisis deepened by Monday’s events in Assembly, says Gerry Adams

20 December 2016

Sinn Féin wants a ‘robust’, time-framed investigation to establish the facts, restore the integrity of the institutions and recover what money can be saved from RHI scandal Free article

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