Niamh O Donoghue

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In quite a personal statement Ms Foster said she came into politics not for gain but to advance the values important to her and to try to make people’s lives better for people in Northern Ireland. . . and to heal divisions. File photograph: PA
Northern Executive starts implementing findings of cash-for-ash report

The Sinn Féin finance Minister Conor Murphy has moved to implement a number of measures to try to prevent a recurrence of the Renewable Heat Incentive(...)

FAI HQ in Abbotstown: Morale among the staff is said to be, understandably, at a low ebb. Photograph: Inpho
Governance review group’s report on the FAI eagerly awaited

If it had a marketing spend behind it the publication at 11 o’clock on Friday morning of the governance review group’s report might be sold as some so(...)

Interim FAI chief executive Rea Walshe will be part of the governance review committee looking into how the association can be reformed. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Walshe and O’Donoghue to be part of FAI governance review committee

Interim FAI chief executive Rea Walshe and current board member Niamh O’Donoghue are to be part of the five-person governance review committee which h(...)

Public service card: Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon was concerned about a ‘considerable leap in purpose for the card’
Commissioner feared potential for ‘form of national ID card’

The Data Protection Commissioner told the head of the Department of Social Protection last year that there was a risk the public services card (PSC) w(...)

FAI chief executive John Delaney speaks at the AGM in Kilkenny. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
FAI insist that rocky times are over - no questions about it

Questions to the top table were once again off the agenda at Saturday’s Football Association of Ireland annual general meeting in Kilkenny but accordi(...)

Department of Social Protection recovered over €82 million in monies overpaid to claimants last year
Number claiming old-age pension increases by two-thirds in 20 years

The number of elderly people in Ireland claiming State pensions has risen by two-thirds in 20 years, according to the Department of Social Protection.(...)

Niamh O’Donoghue, right, chairperson of the Women’s FAI, is due to join the FAI’s board under the terms of a merger agreement between the two football bodies. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/Inpho
FAI making some progress but its board still an old boys’ club

While the FAI has apparently modelled its new coaching structures on established practice in Belgium, it seems a key aspect of the association’s corp(...)

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Cost of Public Services Card rose from €19.8m to €60m

The cost of developing the Government’s Public Services Card rose from an estimated €19.8 million in 2012, to just under 60 million in 2015, according(...)

Chairman of the PAC John McGuinness said it was extraordinary that families were being forced to sleep in hotels after leaving rental accommodation. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times
‘Significant issues’ with social welfare fraud prevention

A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General discovered “significant issues” with internal fraud measures in two social welfare offices in 2013, an(...)

Workers install water meters outside houses in Fortlawn Estate near Blanchardstown, west Dublin, earlier this year. Picture Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin. Workers install water meters outside houses near Blanchardstown. File photograph: Collins
Department warns it needs more resources for €100 water grant

The Department of Social Protection warned it did not have adequate resources to administer the €100 water conservation grant established by the Coali(...)

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