On August 9, 2021, The Irish Times published an opinion piece that led to the newspaper being boycotted by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), individual student unions and some college newspapers, writes Mark Tighe.
A non-profit company set up to help Ukrainians in Ireland find accommodation has reported that over a quarter of its expenditure in its first year went to related parties, which included paying the salary of its chief executive.
Right across the Government, everyone knew Mount Street was becoming a bigger problem every day. Local businesses and residents were threatening legal action against the State if the expanding asylum-seeker ‘tent city’ in the middle of Dublin was not dealt with.
What was she thinking? Justice Minister Helen McEntee is no fool, and when she startled the Oireachtas Justice Committee by blurting out that 80pc of asylum-seekers enter the Republic from the North, she would have felt the ground shifting under her feet.