Although the Department of Enterprise originally did not disclose the number, it has now revealed that all 18 of the 18 applications reviewed in the audit of the Immigrant Investment Programme were found to be deficient. By J Vivian Cooke. Further details have emerged about the Department of Justice’s 2019 internal audit of the Immigrant […] The post Department finally reveals extent of Immigrant Investor scam. appeared first on Village Magazine.

Conclusive proof of ‘Black Diaries’ forgery, finally. By Paul Hyde. Among the diaries attributed to Roger Casement there is a cash ledger for 1911 which is also part diary. This has been scrutinised by several authors, most closely by Jeffrey Dudgeon, the Belfast researcher who is today the leading forgery denier.    In 2002 Dudgeon published […] The post The Devil and Mr Roger Casement. appeared first on Village Magazine.

Private-jet travel is up to 14 times more polluting than commercial flights By Conor O’Carroll The government has hired private jets to transport the Taoiseach to foreign engagements and summits despite the availability of commercial options. Over the past twelve months, hundreds of thousands of Euro has been spent hiring private jets due to the […] The post Government hired private jet despite availability of commercial flights appeared first on Village Magazine.

Con McCarthy paid €15,000 to walk away from conviction for unprecedented case of suffocating badgers near Citywest. By Donna Mullen. Con McCarthy, a developer, planned to construct a warehouse in Brownsbarn, Citywest, Dublin, and hired an ecologist, Brian Keeley, to conduct a badger survey in February 2022. Brian Keeley found two adult badgers bringing bedding […] The post Developer who entombed badgers walked away with Probation Act instead of a conviction after promise to pay money to wildlife charities appeared first on Village Magazine.

Government sole bidder on €11 million Dowth Hall estate purchase with millions more to be spent over the next few years. By Conor O’Carroll. The government was the sole bidder on the Dowth Hall estate, which was purchased for €11 million last year, documents released to Village Magazine reveal. The estate in County Meath, including […] The post Inside the negotiations for Ireland’s new national park appeared first on Village Magazine.

Half the CEOs of commercial state companies earn in excess of €250,000 a year despite pay ceiling By Conor O’Carroll. Just over €75 million has been spent on the salary and benefits of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of commercial state companies in the past decade, a Village investigation has revealed. The total salary of half […] The post €75m spent on CEOs of commercial state companies in the last decade appeared first on Village Magazine.

Dodgy Donegal County Council and its acting director of planning: still at it The post RACISTGRIPT’S JOHN MCGUIRK – telling lies and stirring up hatred against immigrants appeared first on Village Magazine.

The opinion polls show the Green Party marooned on 4% (or 5%), a disgraceful haul for the party with the agenda of the epoch but about right for a party that is abjectly failing on signature cli-mate targets The post Ireland needs better correctives to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael than the Greens and Sinn Féin appeared first on Village Magazine.

There’s been a bloody pothole outside the Village office for the last two weeks. It’s the size of a badger and right in the bus lane outside The post Villager News Miscellany appeared first on Village Magazine.

Ireland disgraces itself over the most notorious at-large sex criminal in sports history. By Irvin Muchnick George Gibney, the story that won’t die, is also the story that won’t live – or at least isn’t given the oxygen to breathe. The latest example follows last November’s headlines about the status of investigations by the Garda […] The post Time to nail US based swimming-coach paedophile George Gibney. appeared first on Village Magazine.