Last Tuesday, National Broadband Ireland (NBI) set aside a full day to show me around its business and made five members of its senior management team available to answer any of my questions, including chief executive Peter Hendrick. They also invited Fergal Mulligan, who heads up the Department of Communications’ unit tasked with overseeing the National Broadband Plan (NBP) contract. There were no PR consultants trying to format quotes or photos, no requests to keep anything off the record and no topic was declared off-limits. This allowed me to publish a detailed article on Friday answering all the questions raised…

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