Human rights solicitor Gavin Booth testified on Friday that businessman Denis O'Brien's comments on a 2016 report on Ireland's media landscape allegedly suggesting the lawyer was in the pay of the IRA were “way below the line”.
From "kill all taigs" to bias, and Roy Greenslade's IRA sympathies, day two of lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth's defamation suit against businessman Denis O'Brien covered a lot of ground.
Now in his 16th budget debate as Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty outlines ideological differences with the Government on housing, the taxation of large and small businesses, and income redistribution in a cost-of-living crisis.
Sinn Féin is now leading a popular front of Labour, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the hard left. This is a historic change, which appeared to be confirmed in the first presidential debate.
The party’s Six Counties organisation was relying on bank overdrafts at the end of last year but has since received generous posthumous donations.
Political parties’ accounts outline different spending priorities and sources of funding in 2024.
A vindicated and victorious Gerry Adams has said his nine-year defamation battle was about "putting manners" on the BBC. The jury found the broadcaster had not acted in good faith and awarded the former Sinn Féin leader €100,000.
The leading opposition party is critical of the Central Bank’s role in facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds as the death toll in Gaza rises to over 53,000 and Israel moves forward with plans to take territory in the strip.
Concerns have been raised over the Central Bank’s role in facilitating Israeli bonds amid the bombing of Gaza. Governor Gabriel Makhlouf says the regulator’s hands are tied but Pearse Doherty is ready to act.
Pearse Doherty is confident Exchequer surpluses will fund his party’s “catch-up programme” on housing and other capital spending.
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