Mark Griffin
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Key climate plan targets ‘not credible’, warned senior official
- Politics
- May 5, 2020, 03:05
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(...)

Eircodes never or rarely used by over 60% of people
- Social Affairs
- February 17, 2020, 01:00
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’s multiple lobbying meetings with politicians
- Media & Marketing
- January 24, 2020, 16:30
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
- Gaelic Football
- September 13, 2019, 13:53
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(...)

Consultants paid lavishly for wrong advice on broadband
- Technology
- August 27, 2019, 04:15
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(...)

Rural decline has football in South Kerry on life support
- Gaelic Football
- August 26, 2019, 07:00
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 (...)

Major funding shortfall threatened other SEAI grant schemes
- Politics
- August 22, 2019, 03:53
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 make a break for victory over battling Clare in second half
- Gaelic Football
- June 3, 2019, 01:00
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(...)

Kerry pull away from Clare early on to book Munster final slot
- Gaelic Football
- June 1, 2019, 21:44
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(...)

Broadband: what you are not being told about the €3bn plan
- Economy
- May 16, 2019, 14:36
The Government is battling to win support for its broadband plan – welcomed through much of rural Ireland, but attacked by its own senior officials an(...)