Ireland Politics: Scrubbed Reports, Soaring Consultancy Bills, and a Government Jet That Can't Land in Fog

A draft government report on data centres included a stark question — whether infrastructure investment should instead go to housing or transport — but that entire line of inquiry was scrubbed before publication. Documents obtained by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan reveal that concerns about water and energy sustainability, farmland conversion, and the opportunity cost of prioritising data centres over public services were all...