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Cianan Brennan
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Journalist with the @irishexaminer.bsky.social. All views my own. DMs open, Threema ID PASBPCSA, cianan.brennan@examiner.ie
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CEO insists Uisce Éireann is 'value for money' after State body paid €13.m in bonuses last year

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CEO insists Uisce Éireann is 'value for money' after State body paid €13.m in bonuses last year
'I would say that we definitely deliver good services around the country,' chief executive Niall Gleeson told the Public Accounts Committee
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November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Fianna Fail refuses to say how much was paid to Ivan Yates for media training for Niall Collins

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Fianna Fáil refuses to say how much was paid to Ivan Yates for media training for Niall Collins
Party declined to say how much of the €42,700 special secretarial allowance was spent on fees to Mr Yates
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November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Remind me again what party Ivan Yates was a Minister for?
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.

November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Data Protection Commission beware: Poachers aren't always the best gamekeepers

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Data Protection Commission beware: Poachers aren't always the best gamekeepers
The Public Appointment Service's decision to hire a Meta defector creates a lot of pitfalls, argues Cianan Brennan
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November 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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'Significant progress' made in National Children’s Hospital's internal controls, State body claims

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'Significant progress' made in National Children’s Hospital's internal controls, State body claims
The project first broke ground nine years ago and its budget has ballooned from less than €600m to its current estimate of €2.24bn
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October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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This appointment earlier this month slipped broadly under the radar. It's likely it would have caused a furore even two or three years back...

Department 'fully satisfied' with appointment of ex-Meta lobbyist to Data Protection Commission

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Department 'fully satisfied' with appointment of ex-Meta lobbyist to Data Protection Commission
In recent years, Meta has been slapped with multiple fines by the Data Protection Commission totalling well over €1bn for data breaches
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October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Department 'getting better value now' on accommodation for asylum seekers, PAC told

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Department 'getting better value now' on accommodation for asylum seekers, PAC told
Secretary general of the department of Justice repeatedly declined to answer definitively to what extent that is the case
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October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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'Outrage' as former tech giant lobbyist appointed to Data Protection Commission

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'Outrage' as former tech giant lobbyist appointed to Data Protection Commission
Privacy experts and digital wellbeing activists say appointment 'reflects a concerning level of disregard for EU law'
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October 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Regulator 'in contact with several online platforms' over Citywest rioting

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Regulator 'in contact with several online platforms' over Citywest rioting
Coimisiún na Meán seeking 'to understand the measures' social media platforms took in relation to the incident
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October 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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More credit cards than you could eat, and an uninsured car crash that cost €230,000, to name just two issues raised...

Audit reveals 'deficiencies in internal control' at IFI

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Audit reveals 'deficiencies in internal control' at IFI
A damaging series of administrative errors and irregularities saw the organisation’s entire board stood down in 2023
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October 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Word of this overspend wasn't given in advance to the PAC, meaning the officials in attendance were caught cold when confronted with it... Likely not the last you'll hear of it

Beaumont hospital went €2.9m overbudget implementing new payroll system

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Beaumont hospital went €2.9m overbudget implementing new payroll system
Cork Labour TD Eoghan Kenny said it was "disgraceful" that Beaumont had not mentioned the overspend
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October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Kildare the most expensive county to house international protection applicants at €92 per night

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Kildare the most expensive county to house international protection applicants at €92 per night
Average cost to accommodate an asylum seeker nationwide last year was €83.82 per night
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October 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Tusla chief says agency found 'no child protection concerns' around disappearance of Daniel Aruebose

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Tusla chief said agency had found 'no child protection concerns' around disappearance of Daniel Aruebose
Kate Duggan told Dáil Public Accounts Committee she would 'absolutely support' the publication of Tusla’s internal inquiry reports regarding Daniel’s disappearance
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October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Businessman in dispute with HSE over faulty ventilators wins contract for Galway hydro turbine project

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Businessman in dispute with HSE over faulty ventilators wins contract for Galway hydro turbine project
Robert Quirke's company Roqu Media International received €14.1m from the HSE to procure 328 ventilators from China at the height of the pandemic, but just 72 ventilators were received, and the device...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Cost of televising Oireachtas proceedings went over budget by €1.5m last year, PAC told

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Cost of televising Oireachtas proceedings went over budget by €1.5m last year, PAC told
The Public Accounts Committee was also tole that an infamous €336,000 bike shed at Dail Eireann now represents 'the number one attraction for visitors at Leinster House'
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September 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Consultants earning more than €350k more than doubled over year

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Consultants earning more than €350k more than doubled over year
Some 10 consultants earned more than €500,000 over the 12 months, up from eight in 2022, a HSE internal audit report found
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September 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Competency' of State bodies questioned after almost double the contract value spent on IT project

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'Competency' of State bodies questioned after almost double the contract value spent on IT project
The department's general secretary said there had been 'clear justification' for the changes, which had given rise 'to significant added value to the ETB sector' with 'full value for money' having bee...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Sweet suffering Jesus
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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'I am living proof' of hope after homelessness says Focus Ireland worker

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'I am living proof' of hope after homelessness says Focus Ireland worker
Marie Farrell plumbed the depths when she became homeless three years ago. But today she is a peer worker with Focus Ireland — the group that helped her get her life together
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September 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Vulnerable people in the North or near the Border warned of phone alert test

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Vulnerable people in the North or near the Border warned of phone alert test
People such as victims of human trafficking or domestic abuse who have 'secret' phones are being warned to silence their phone ahead of Sunday's UK-wide alert test
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September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Hot school meals mess needs a rational solution

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Cianan Brennan: Hot school meals mess needs a rational solution
The withdrawal of providers due to onerous new conditions around waste and staffing needs to be sorted, and quickly, writes Cianan Brennan
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September 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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We had a horrific emergency involving our kids today and right now I'm just sitting at my computer in a daze and in shock. Thankfully they are okay but others are less fortunate.
August 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM