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Delivery of broadband to rural homes by end of 2022 could be reduced to between 130,000 and 150,000 – down from the original goal of more than 200,000. Photograph: iStock
Delay in hiring cybersecurity director criticised at PAC

A delay in hiring a new director for the State’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been criticised at the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PA(...)

Forecasts that electricity demand will continue growing have increased the focus on the pressures faced by the Republic’s supply network.
Whitegate and Huntstown plants may reopen to meet energy needs

Two electricity plants whose shutdown added to a squeeze on energy supplies last winter could restart generating later this year. Surging electricity(...)

‘Ignoring agriculture increases the costs for other sectors and for the economy as a whole,’ Department of Public Expenditure secretary general Robert Watt said. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Key climate plan targets ‘not credible’, warned senior official

Key planks of the Government’s climate action plan are “not credible” and it should have proposed cutting the national farming herd rather than “ignor(...)

People surveyed were asked how often, if at all, they had used Eircode for example, for postage or deliveries in the past year. Photograph: Eric Luke
Eircodes never or rarely used by over 60% of people

More than six in 10 Irish people never or rarely use the Eircode system, more than four years after its introduction at a cost of €38 million, an offi(...)

RTÉ director general Dee Forbes or the chairwoman of the board were present at most of the meetings. Photograph: Jason Andrews
RTÉ’s multiple lobbying meetings with politicians

Senior RTÉ representatives met politicians or top Government officials on 14 occasions in the final four months of 2019, a period in which the deficit(...)

All-Ireland final replay: Kerry player-by-player guide

1. SHANE RYAN (Rathmore) @Shane_r14 Age: 23 Height: 6’2” Weight: 14st 2lbs Acquitted himself quite well. Sign-posted vulnerability on re-starts occas(...)

KPMG: was hired to provide “financial, commercial and procurement advisory services” for the NBP. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Consultants paid lavishly for wrong advice on broadband

Whether or not we think the Government’s €2.9 billion National Broadband Plan (NBP) represents value for money – and it seems most outside the corrido(...)

Derrynane GAA in South Kerry. Photograph: Mike Curran
Rural decline has football in South Kerry on life support

Gazing across St Mary’s pitch in Cahersiveen, Brian O’Sullivan considers its history. The club was founded in 1929 but the history of Gaelic Games in (...)

The Government’s grant schemes for electric vehicles, solar panels and energy efficiency home improvements had drawn down 80 per cent of their budgets for the entire year. Photograph: Alan Betson
Major funding shortfall threatened other SEAI grant schemes

The Government’s ability to pay grants for three energy-saving schemes was cast into doubt earlier this summer when officials identified a €20 million(...)

Kerry goal scorer James O’Donoghue is tackled by Clare’s Seán O’Donoghue during Munster semi-final at Cusack Park, Ennis. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Kerry make a break for victory over battling Clare in second half

Clare 0-12 Kerry 1-15 Kerry are on course for a seventh successive Munster senior football title as a result of a deserved six-point victory over Cl(...)

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