Simon Carswell
Irish Times
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Biden confirms plan to visit Northern Ireland and Republic for peace anniversary
US president spoke alongside British prime minister Rishi Sunak about planned visit at event in California → Read More
Residents around Dublin Airport asked to help prepare for legal action over noise
Public meeting of north Dublin residents told that new flight paths from the airport’s new north runway have increased noise and narrowed area overflown by passing flights → Read More
Presentation Sisters religious order to close Co Kildare nursing home
Religious order says Shalom Nursing Home in Kilcock is no longer sustainable at 30 per cent occupancy with just 13 nuns in residence → Read More
Q&A: The rental eviction ban ends
The Government’s decision to lift the eviction ban from the end of this month will leave some tenants facing a search for a new home → Read More
Watchdog says €30.5m spent on ventilators for Covid-19 ‘still being pursued or unrecoverable’
Estimated €8.1 million spent on medical devices in early days of the pandemic will never be recovered → Read More
UK to ‘clarify exactly’ how Stormont Brake will work within days
Chris Heaton-Harris says Northern Ireland’s place in UK secure as DUP mulls over latest post-Brexit plan → Read More
‘Don’t tell me I got an easy ride’
Cork businessman secured 99 per cent debt write-off from bank in formal insolvency deal → Read More
AIB says ‘no special deals for special individuals’ on debt write-offs
Majority State-owned bank says it pursues a ‘robust’ policy to recover loans from borrowers → Read More
Ferry operator floats idea of green lanes on Dublin-Holyhead route for goods bound for North
Stena Line wants freight companies moving loads from UK to NI ‘via Irish land bridge’ to be ‘treated equally’ with those using direct routes → Read More
Northern Ireland protocol deal may send more lorry traffic back to ports in Republic, says Rosslare port chief
Dublin and Rosslare port managers say Brexit had led to dramatic increase in freight volumes on direct EU routes as traders avoid new border controls with Britain → Read More
Surge in number of people who cannot heat their homes
Charity says 377,000 people are unable to heat their homes adequately in energy-costs crisis and almost 454,000 have gone without heating → Read More
Windsor Framework: How the new deal on the Northern Ireland protocol will work
New system a ‘decisive breakthrough’ claims Sunak while deal has ‘removed any sense of a border in the Irish Sea’, says von der Leyen → Read More
Case of Irish-Russian woman in Australia highlights ‘security complacency’
Former head of Army Ranger Wing, Cathal Berry TD, says no vetting in place for parliamentary assistants → Read More
Q&A: The deal that might be reached on the Northern Ireland protocol
Long-running dispute on post-Brexit trade rules has led to political stalemate in Northern Ireland but EU and UK are close to deal → Read More
Irish dancing body to review court ruling’s impact on suspensions over alleged ‘feis fixing’
High Court grants injunction halting suspension of feis adjudicator Amanda Hennigan but refuses to stop An Comisiún Le Rinci Gaelacha disciplinary process → Read More
AIB agrees to answer questions on DJ Carey debt write-down at Oireachtas committee
Bank to answer questions on debt forgiveness in wake of controversy around settlement deal → Read More
Sharp increase in the number of older people at risk of poverty, CSO finds
Survey on Income and Living Conditions suggests a further 76,000 people became at risk of falling into poverty last year → Read More
DJ Carey debt: eye-watering write-off deals now common on Celtic Tiger loans
AIB’s settlement with Kilkenny hurling star is typical in High Court-approved personal insolvency arrangements → Read More
Sale of golf properties linked to DJ Carey raised €1.8m towards his AIB debt
Former hurling star had about 80 per cent of his €9.5 million debt written off after sales → Read More
AIB defends debt deals following DJ Carey criticism
Majority State-owned bank addresses debt write-down for Kilkenny hurling star in circular to staff → Read More