Mr Stanley

6 results

The Irish Government’s involvement with the Northern Ireland centenary will be the funding of a major conference in Queen’s University Belfast.
2021’s truce, treaty and Northern Ireland commemorations will test our goodwill

It was a year in which one political entity was created, Northern Ireland, and another, the Irish Free State, was negotiated into being. It was also (...)

Matt Carthy said the figures meant ‘it works out per those 22,000 jobs, at a cost of about €11,000 per job’. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Jobpath scheme costs €11,000 per successful participant, TD says

The Government’s flagship activation scheme for the long-term unemployed was costing €11,000 per successful participant, the Public Accounts Committee(...)

INBS’s former chairman Michael Walsh, who told the inquiry into the building society that non-executive directors were becoming increasingly frustrated with its top two executives in the lead-up to the financial crash. File photograph: Eric Luke
INBS board ‘frustrated’ with executives before crash

Irish Nationwide Building Society’s former chairman, Michael Walsh, has said the lender’s board had become clearly frustrated with its top two executi(...)

Tom Hoare from the union Impact with colleague Brendan Ryan and care staff at the Oberstown youth detention centre where a four-hour work stoppage was staged. Photograph: Conor Healy
Oberstown youth detention centre talks geared to end dispute

Talks between management and unions at Oberstown youth detention centre will go ahead on Wednesday in an attempt to resolve an industrial dispute over(...)

Bord na Mona chief executive Gabriel D’Arcy: ‘We have done the engineering studies for it with regards to our part of the project.’ Photograph: Frank Miller
Bord na Móna to seek planning permission for giant reservoir

Bord na Móna has said it is ready to submit its part of the planning permission for a giant reservoir which will supply the east coast with water. T(...)

Simon Coveney, Fine Gael transport spokesman in August 2010, at the publication of the party's Vehicle Immobilisation Regulation Bill. Photograph: Eric Luke
Bill to cap clampers’ release fees

Motorists who have been victims of the worst excesses of unscrupulous clampers will find great satisfaction in the Regulation of Vehicle Immobi(...)