Good to see small independent media outlets digging in to things our larger media miss
> Mr O’Brien last week published a Cabinet-approved masterplan to overhaul ABP.
Did we see this on here?
Paywall. Can we just say hangem flogem like all the other threads and assume he’s deserving of the c-word on repeat? OK.
Fair fucks to The Ditch for this.
Whatever questions about their investors/ownership (Paddy Cosgrave is a right gowl) I can’t remember the last time the likes of the Times did anything like this sort of investigative reporting.
Rosita Boland undermining central bank 3.5x mortgage lending rules by implying they’re the real root of the housing crisis is not investigative journalism.
Harry McGee texting Simon Harris about what went on at the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last night is not investigative journalism.
Simon Carswell comparing a jumped up Twitter poll that says 52 people out of a hundred are pro-Nato therefore “Ireland is divided” on the issue despite all evidence to the contrary, is not investigative journalism.
Irish media is just so milquetoast and supplicant. Rare is the day something is printed in the press that the government don’t want out in the public.
I think The Ditch have at times been guilty of over-egging the pudding with some of their other exposes, but I’m glad they exist all the same.
His very presence on the board was rotten, before he even got a vote. He was nominated to the board by a defunct former lobby group which had been granted nomination rights to ABP.
“The IRDA was wound up in 2012. Two years later, as first reported in The Ditch, Mr Hyde was appointed to the planning board after being nominated by the then defunct organisation in 2013.
Sources close to Mr Connolly (IRDA Founder) said that he has no recollection of involvement in any nomination process to do with Mr Hyde and he does not know Mr Hyde.”
Clifford has done a couple of long interviews on this subject on Eamon Dunphy’s podcast.
Is he a joint owner of a yacht with Mr Coveney,
He won’t though.
Positions anywhere in the Irish planning system must be highly prized by anybody wanting to get their snout in the trough.
For what
Our planning process has enabled some shocking buildings to be made. I’m not talking about whether or not buildings shoukd be built, just that when they are they look like shit
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Good to see small independent media outlets digging in to things our larger media miss
> Mr O’Brien last week published a Cabinet-approved masterplan to overhaul ABP.
Did we see this on here?
Paywall. Can we just say hangem flogem like all the other threads and assume he’s deserving of the c-word on repeat? OK.
Fair fucks to The Ditch for this.
Whatever questions about their investors/ownership (Paddy Cosgrave is a right gowl) I can’t remember the last time the likes of the Times did anything like this sort of investigative reporting.
Rosita Boland undermining central bank 3.5x mortgage lending rules by implying they’re the real root of the housing crisis is not investigative journalism.
Harry McGee texting Simon Harris about what went on at the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last night is not investigative journalism.
Simon Carswell comparing a jumped up Twitter poll that says 52 people out of a hundred are pro-Nato therefore “Ireland is divided” on the issue despite all evidence to the contrary, is not investigative journalism.
Irish media is just so milquetoast and supplicant. Rare is the day something is printed in the press that the government don’t want out in the public.
I think The Ditch have at times been guilty of over-egging the pudding with some of their other exposes, but I’m glad they exist all the same.
His very presence on the board was rotten, before he even got a vote. He was nominated to the board by a defunct former lobby group which had been granted nomination rights to ABP.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40888160.html
Mick Clifford:
“The IRDA was wound up in 2012. Two years later, as first reported in The Ditch, Mr Hyde was appointed to the planning board after being nominated by the then defunct organisation in 2013.
Sources close to Mr Connolly (IRDA Founder) said that he has no recollection of involvement in any nomination process to do with Mr Hyde and he does not know Mr Hyde.”
Clifford has done a couple of long interviews on this subject on Eamon Dunphy’s podcast.
Is he a joint owner of a yacht with Mr Coveney,
He won’t though.
Positions anywhere in the Irish planning system must be highly prized by anybody wanting to get their snout in the trough.
For what
Our planning process has enabled some shocking buildings to be made. I’m not talking about whether or not buildings shoukd be built, just that when they are they look like shit