NI Water has still failed to produce a copy of its fraud prevention policy, despite insisting that the document exists and trumpeting its importance on its website. I asked for a copy of the document almost three weeks ago, but NI Water still hasn’t been able to send it to me.
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Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
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Months after NI Water claimed it had investigated a whistleblower’s claims about systemic fraud against the taxpayer & shut the case, the PSNI is now examining the allegations. But the whistleblower has already been ditched by NIW after 20 years as a contractor.
Police now examining fraud allegations NI Water dismissed months ago
Months after NI Water claimed it had fully investigated a whistleblower’s claims about systemic fraud against the taxpayer, the PSNI is now examining the allegations.
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Working from home once signified poverty; now it signifies privilege. But that privilege involves disadvantage elsewhere - and especially for young people. This is an unjust revolution which is favouring people like me.
Working from home might suit people like me, but it could accelerate already dangerous trends
There was a time when working from home signified poverty. Subsistence farming, stitching a few garments or spinning yarn were never the occupations of the wealthy.
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A major gangster was on the IRA Army Council in 2002, according to a previously secret Downing Street file — while David Trimble told the Government that people in both unionism & nationalism were too tolerant of criminality but the effect was ‘corrosive’.
Gangster was on IRA Army Council, according to newly released Downing Street file
Major gangster Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy was on the IRA Army Council in 2002, according to a previously secret Downing Street file — with both British and US officials repeatedly speaking of him by name.
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It's a decade since a critical meeting as RHI ran out of control. Now, hapless Stormont’s continued inability to shut RHI exposes how irreformable devolution has been - and some of the behaviour which led to RHI is being repeated under a Sinn Féin minister.
Some of the behaviour which led to RHI is being repeated under Sinn Féin minister
It’s the scandal everyone wants to die – but stubbornly refuses to expire.
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🎧Talking to Olivia Peden about the 'invasion' of Clontibret: It's such a bizarre, absurd, disturbing and significant event with enduring mystery as to whether Peter Robinson was trying to outflank Ian Paisley, or if Paisley dropped him in it.
Peter Robinson and the loyalist ‘invasion’ of Clontibret
Clontibret is a small, unassuming village, in County Monaghan, just a few miles from County Armagh.
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As Ambassador to Ireland, JFK’s sister was seen as close to Gerry Adams - but after September 11, she privately said Tony Blair should be "much tougher with the IRA" and should tell Congress “that Americans should stop sending any money to the IRA”, declassified Downing Street file shows.
US diplomat believed Tony Blair should stop ‘pussy footing around’ with Gerry Adams after 9/11 attacks
In the wake of September 11, two US diplomats – one of whom had been close to Gerry Adams – expressed private dismay at how weak Tony Blair’s Government was being with Sinn Féin.
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Gerry Adams furiously complained to Tony Blair about voters being taken off the electoral register after an anti-fraud law came into effect — but when Sinn Fein handed over names to the Government, some of them proved to be dead, declassified files show.
Adams claimed fraud law excluded voters – but names SF gave Electoral Office turned out to be dead people
Gerry Adams furiously complained to Tony Blair about voters being taken off the electoral register — but when Sinn Fein handed over names to the Government, some of them proved to be dead, declassifie...
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Ouch! As it happens, I'm not. Thanks, Sean.
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Just hours before a Belfast Telegraph article on the issue, NI Water deleted a statement which dismissed a whistleblower’s allegations of systemic fraud. It now admits that multiple investigations are under way into allegations it said had been resolved.
Whistleblower’s fraud claim dismissal quietly deleted by NI Water as investigation reopens
NI Water has quietly withdrawn a statement which dismissed a whistleblower’s allegations of systemic fraud and now admits that multiple investigations are under way into claims which it said had been ...
