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Aug 24, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
NEW: Former Chief Justice, Susan Denham, to review Seamus Woulfe’s attendance at the #golfgate dinner Image
Unprecedented for the Supreme Court (as a whole) to seek an outside review of a judge’s actions away from the bench - the only previous reviews related to someone’s actions as a judge
Though it obviously makes sense to have an eminent former Chief Justice as the outside arbiter, it’s also pretty much impossible for another sitting judge to independently review the case because, as AG, Woulfe was at the cabinet that appointed so many of them!

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Feb 27
Catherine Martin opens her appearance at Oireachtas Media Committee by saying the two external reports into culture and governance at RTÉ - which were notionally due to report by end of February - are delayed and will now be handed over next month.
First question, on the button, from SF's Fintan Warfield: shouldn't you have spent last Thursday evening meeting with Siún Ní Raghallaigh instead of being on TV?

Answer: It would be wrong to pull out of a prearranged interview, and it needed more than a rushed evening meeting
Warfield puts it to her that, as politicians, both know that interview plans change and guests often cancel at short notice. "I don't think your first job as minister is to go on television… surely you know you were going to be asked, had you confidence in Siún Ní Raghallaigh"
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Jul 11, 2023
📺 Coverage of the Oireachtas Media Committee getting underway in a mo on Virgin Media One.

Be advised: Tubridy and Kelly intend to read the same opening statements (as PAC) in full to open the meeting, to contextualise answers for the nine members who weren’t there earlier
Huzzah. By consent, Tubridy and Kelly won't re-read the full opening statements (to do so was a deferential act to a committee that doesn't want it) so into the questions we go.

FF's Christopher O'Sullivan goes first
O'Sullivan picks up the baton from PAC. You know you were issuing invoices for consultancy fees for services that wen't consultancy…

Kelly: It's what RTÉ asked us to do.

CO'S: You understand people's scepticism?

Kelly: But they're the facts.
Read 51 tweets
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Jul 11, 2023
Imelda Munster is first up, asking about the genesis of the 'tripartite' deal (RTE/Renault/Tubridy).

Kelly: "This is nothing about pay cuts, this is a separate commercial deal…" Says it was proposed to him by Breda O'Keeffe, then RTE CFO.
Kelly frames the idea of underwriting the €75k deal suggesting it was to insulate Tubridy from any Late Late sponsor change.

"It was never for RTÉ to pay. The guarantee was for, if another sponsor came on", that they would inherit a similar arrangement for personal appearances
Munster: But the deal was underwritten, at your request, from the public purse?

Kelly: I asked for the deal to be underwritten because the relationship with the sponsor is with RTE and not us.

Munster: But underwritten by RTE?

Kelly: Yes.

Munster: So the public purse.
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May 9, 2023
‘One way or another, Albert has to go’ – Peadar Tóibín calls for removal of prince’s statue from Leinster House

…so, there’s a funny story about the last time someone proposed to remove this statue… independent.ie/irish-news/one…
…which is that there was a petition sent to the Oireachtas Petitions Committee in 2017 making a broadly similar argument - that Albert was the consort of a much unloved imperial monarch and there was no justification for the Leinster House authorities to keep him there.

Except:
Firstly it turned out that the statue was the property of the OPW and not of the Oireachtas, so Leinster House didn’t have the authority to simply remove it: it wasn’t theirs to throw away.

But then the committee members did a bit of digging and…
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Apr 27, 2023
Niall Collins now on his feet in the Dáil. "I am in absolutely no doubt that … my actions were at all times legally correct"
"The question of the potential sale of the property followed various expressions of interest by members of the public… one of the people… was Dr Eimear O'Connor, who is also my wife. It was agreed at the area committee meeting that the property should be sold on open market"
"An area committee of a local authority, which in the case of the Bruss area committee included only seven councillors, does not have disposal rights for the sale of council property. This is a reserved and statutory function of the full county council by law"
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Apr 27, 2023
ℹ️ I understand Niall Collins’ personal statement to the Dáil will be made at around 1:50pm today
Same topic being raised at Leaders' Questions by Holly Cairns, who asks if standards of transparency and accountability in FF are slipping, given Barry Cowen was sacked for not taking questions while Collins will now (twice) be resisting calls for similar
"At the outset of this, the full story was not told," says the Taoiseach, alluding to the Sept 2008 meeting at which the sale was formally approved, when Collins was already gone
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