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Category: Irish Politics

  • Tax implications?

    Take a look at this explanatory note: Conditions to be Satisfied to Avail of the Section 54 Exemption 4.1 Revenue will now apply the gift tax exemption under the “public purposes” provisions of section 54 CATA, 1976, to political donations that meet the various conditions and requirements under the Electoral Acts. These include the requirements…

  • What is going on?

    On Monday, an Irish Examiner report revealed that Fianna Fail had failed to disclose donations from some of the country’s biggest developers: Ballymore Properties and Durkan New Homes. The news has been greeted with apparent silence elsewhere in the media. I have to wonder why. It strikes me as important given that electoral law looks…

  • Welcome to Ireland

    Where PDFs of reports come from scanned documents, with this all over the place: Anthony rightly lambasts the Government on the censored Monageer Report. Can anyone really say we live in a properly functioning democracy?

  • Ansbacher Report – complete

    I have uploaded the entire Ansbacher Report. I will be adding the full set of links shortly. (Some PDFs are not working, I will replace those)

  • Haughey sells Abbeyville

    For a total of €45 million, in case you forgot. As it turned out, Moriarty found that the money came from AIB, effectively writing off his debt. How nice of them. moriarty1 Publish at Scribd or explore others: Research moriarty tribunal mo

  • Ansbacher explained

    Dug up from the RTE archives. Brings back memories, or perhaps new material for younger readers. Unfortunately, nothing was done about it. The words of the Revenue ring hollow after publication:

  • Reports so far

    Hopefully this list is about to get much longer: Adobe Acrobat is needed to view most of these documents. Download it here. Planning Tribunal First Interim Report (.pdf) (1997) Second Interim Report (.pdf) (2002) Third Interim Report (.pdf) Fourth Interim Report (.pdf) (2004) Morris Tribunal First report (Report on explosives ‘finds’ in Donegal)(.pdf) (2004) Second…

  • The Beef Tribunal Report

    The Government Publications Office does not appear to have it. Does anyone have a copy of the report?

  • Digitising documents

    Further to the launch of Kildare Street, I have been attempting to build a digital database of important documents and reports. For now the provisional list is over at Public Inquiry, but I hope to either build a dedicated website to house these documents, or perhaps wikify the whole thing. I recently got my hands…

  • Kildare Street beta

    You may have already come across it by now but I am pleased to announce – after the Herculean efforts of one John Handelaar – that the Irish version of TheyWorkForYou.com, Kildare Street, is now open for business in beta form. I hope you all find it very useful, as I will.