DUBLIN — The British authorities authorized a brand new investigation Thursday into the 1998 car-bomb assault on the Northern Eire city of Omagh, a long-postponed dedication that might spotlight safety screw-ups on each side of the Irish border. The August 15, 1998 explosion by an Irish Republican Military splinter group …
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DUBLIN — Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe on Tuesday admitted receiving company donations that breached Eire’s tight legal limits, deepening a scandal that’s straining the soundness of Eire’s coalition authorities. Donohoe, the longtime finance minister who final month switched Cabinet roles and is now answerable for public expenditure and reform, issued …
Read More »Pressure grows on Ireland’s Donohoe over election expenses – POLITICO read full article at worldnews365.me
DUBLIN — Irish Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe confronted rising strain to give up Tuesday after a enterprise buddy admitted he gave Donohoe undeclared help in back-to-back elections at odds with donation guidelines. Donohoe, the Eurogroup president and certainly one of Eire’s most necessary politicians on the EU stage, will …
Read More »Tories’ former Euroskeptic-in-chief wants Brexiteers and DUP to warm up to the Irish – POLITICO read full article at worldnews365.me
DUBLIN – Steve Baker says he has a dream – that one day, Jeffrey Donaldson and the European Research Group of Brexiteer Tories will join him in building a new partnership with the Irish. The U.K.’s junior Northern Ireland Office minister stole the show at the end of Thursday’s joint …
Read More »Irish Finance Minister Donohoe apologizes for failure to disclose 2016 donations – POLITICO read full article at worldnews365.me
DUBLIN — Could a failure to report election expenses worth less than €5,000 claim the political scalp of Ireland’s finance whiz Paschal Donohoe, the Eurogroup president? The Dubliner, who until now has barely put a foot wrong as a Cabinet minister since 2016, faced a parliamentary grilling Wednesday over his …
Read More »Northern Ireland talks descend into farce as protocols collide – POLITICO read full article at worldnews365.me
BELFAST — A top-level British diplomatic mission designed to soothe tensions over the Northern Ireland trade protocol instead opened new divisions Wednesday when the leader of Sinn Féin was unexpectedly barred. U.K. government officials offered conflicting explanations for blocking Mary Lou McDonald from the Northern Ireland Office meeting with Foreign …
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