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Colm Keena

Colm Keena

Public Affairs Correspondent

Colm Keena is the the public affairs correspondent with The Irish Times where his areas of interest include business controversies and the interaction between business and politics. Keena's report in 2006 about the Mahon Tribunal’s inquiries into payments to the then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, created a political crisis. His refusal to cooperate with the tribunal’s inquiries into the source of the information in that report eventually led to a Supreme Court ruling governing the right of journalists to protect confidential sources of information. He's the author of books on Bertie Ahern, Charles Haughey and Gerry Adams as well as on the secretive banking system that operated during the Haughey era known as the Ansbacher Deposits.

Independent Newspapers on Talbot street. The company has proposed that employees, and former employees who have not yet reached retirement age, would have their pension benefits slashed by 46 per cent as part of an effort to rescue the defined benefit pension fund, which has a deficit of €162 million.
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Losing time: Colm Keena on Samuel Beckett Bridge, in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
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The Bank of Ireland on College Green, Dublin. The bank’s shares fell 2.48 per cent yesterday
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The shutters were down at 157 Parnell Street in Dublin today. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times
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File image of John Mullins, former CEO of Bord Gáis
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Senator Carl Levin: had repeatedly described Ireland as a tax haven during senate hearings. Photograph: Reuters
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Apple CEO Tim Cook appears before senators Carl Levin and John McCain at committee hearing in Washington. Photograph: Jason Reed /Reuters
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