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.

Jeremy Masding, CEO Permanent TSB: wrote to all staff yesterday outlining his determination to achieve the reduction in costs being targeted by the bank. Photograph: Dave Meehan
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John Dixon, Ernst & Young’s head of tax, gives evidence the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee inquiry into Google’s tax affairs. Photograph: PA/PA Wire
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Google’s European, Middle East and African sales headquarters on Barrow Street, Dublin. Photograph: Paul McErlane/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Matthew Elderfield, the outgoing Financial Regulator, addressing the European Insurance Forum in Dublin yesterday. Photograph: David Sleator
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Ibec chief executive Danny McCoy: “We can take our foot off the brakes a bit”. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
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Michael McAteer said former Quinn Group executive Kevin Lunney was not subject to a directive from the Central Bank in 2008 concerning his working with Quinn Insurance, contrary to what Mr McAteer had told the Employment Appeals Tribunal. Photograph: David Sleator
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Seán Quinn jnr leaving the Employment Appeals Tribunal in Dublin. Photograph: David Sleator
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