In today’s Tribune, we are carrying a story about how an airport transit to transport John O’Donoghue from one terminal of Heathrow Airport to another ended up costing E472.
Even though it was just a two-hour layover as Minister O’Donoghue landed in London en route from India back to Dublin, an official from the Embassy came [...]
These are the two Ministerial expenses stories that largely slipped under the radar in recent times.
The first involves John O’Donoghue’s trip to New York where €28,000 was spent in four days between himself, his wife, his private secretary and another senior civil servant.
This does not feature in the larger O’Donoghue FOI because this trip was [...]
This story started more than a year ago as I began to look into allegations of excessive spending by the Ceann Comhairle’s office.
First up was a story about the refurbishment of John O’Donoghue’s office in Leinster House at a cost to the taxpayer of more than €100,000, which included €29,000 for carpets, a €1,000 chair [...]