🔴 PRESS RELEASE - Ombudsman criticises @EUCommission handling of Ursula von der Leyen text messages access request. 📌 ombudsman.europa.eu/press-release/… 1/2

"Not all text messages need to be recorded but text messages clearly do fall under the EU transparency law and so relevant text messages need to be." 2/2

In 2014, the Irish Credit Bureau lost the contract to run the Central Bank credit register to an Italian company. This is the story of how the business went from having an €80m valuation to shutting down. thecurrency.news/articles/73281…

Important judgment today from EU Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) in Case C-300/20 concerning scope of #SEA Directive #EUlaw #environment curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Russia's largest private financial institution Alfa Bank is now banned from raising bonds in the US and Thomas Byrne told Morning Ireland new EU sanctions to be detailed today would target it too. Alfa Bank has a multi-billion debt pile issued in Dublin. thecurrency.news/articles/72800…

4/8 Despite widespread condemnation, Putin has sought to justify the invasion. I wanted to explore that justification and had this exchange Sergei Markov who's a former MP with Putin's United Russia Party. He says this conflict is about 'denazification'.

6/8 When considering what Russia says now that the war has begun, it's worth noting what it said about the possibility of an invasion. There were multiple warnings from the West and explicit denials from Russia.

7/8 NATO's place in this story is keenly contested. What's certain is that Putin has repeatedly railed against NATO's expansion in Eastern Europe. And NATO is central to the West's response to Putin. Here's how. (Posted on Feb 11 - before the invasion.)

David McCullagh* Why should our government entertain your presence here when you are acting as an apologist for slaughter? Russian Ambassador* It’s a good question

Its #Worldbookday where loads of kids go to school dressed as their favourite book characters. Stuck for a costume? I'm hearing a lot of kids are dresing as soil nitrates directives to show how much they love my book.

A handy free-access summary of The Currency's coverage or Russian money in Ireland with links to 10 deeper case studies, analysis and commentary pieces. thecurrency.news/articles/74900…

I just got what's app messages that I honestly thought were from my daughter until it asked for a photo of my card back and front. I was busy at work or would have spotted a few red flags. Research was done as they used mam which is what my kids call me.

Wow. x.com/Lawton_Times/s…

The night before the 2020 election, Tracy Chapman said: “This is the most important election of our lifetime. It is imperative that everyone vote to restore our democracy.” And then she went on Seth Meyers and dropped this:

Edmund Honohan might be the most important voice in Irish mortgage reform you've never heard of. As Master of the High Court from 2001-2022, he's seen firsthand how vulture funds and banks have exploited legal loopholes to repossess homes. Now he's on a mission to fix the

What ? Not even on a jury?

2 years ago MSNBC predicted that Elon Musk’s Twitter was "on the brink of collapse" Today X is the number 1 app & Elon saved free speech. And MSNBC is on the brink of collapse

🌟 WOMAN OF THE YEAR! 🌟 The award judges said that this honour is a testament to my relentless campaigning—forcing the all-male Garrick Club to open its doors to women, driving the resignation of five senior judges, and winning against Bar Standards Board. This is vindication.

Legal Style Blog A Caribbean country used to send their officers to be trained at Sandhurst but one day the MoD/HMT decided to charge them for that (we are talking c. 100k per annum). So China now trains officers for that country HMT - knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

I was just on the Easyjet EZY8084 from Palma to Gatwick. Once we got on board we got an air traffic delay. The captain came out and explained the situation and invited anyone with children who wanted to use the 45 minutes delay to come and visit the cockpit. Once we took off