Northern Ireland’s chief vet has attempted to have the Belfast Telegraph censured for our coverage of him — but his c...
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Stormont’s agriculture department has failed to explain why it hasn’t filed its accounts more than nine months after ...
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Northern Ireland’s chief vet is to retire, it can be revealed, and within months will be picking up a pension worth a...
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A week-long strike by hundreds of government vets could cripple parts of the Northern Ireland economy and dramaticall...
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Eight months ago, the Head of the Civil Service published a supposedly independent report into a shameful episode in ...
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Government vets are like power station engineers or sewerage treatment plant workers — unseen by most of us but criti...
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Civil servants have published a 69-page report into how a government vet was hounded out of her job for whistleblowin...
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The Stormont vet hounded out of her job for attempting to prevent animal suffering and potential fraud has said she h...
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One of the senior civil servants involved in unlawfully hounding a government vet out of her job has lost his positio...
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The statutory regulator for UK vets was six months ago looking into the behaviour of Northern Ireland’s chief vet and...
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A taxpayer-funded report into Northern Ireland’s chief vet may never be made public — something even senior civil ser...
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Northern Ireland’s chief vet is continuing to be feted despite his role in hounding a colleague from her job after sh...
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Deep in the bureaucratic belly of Stormont’s scandal-ridden agriculture department, there is quiet panic.
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Despite months of revelations about the behaviour of Northern Ireland’s chief vet he remains in post — and on Thursda...
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The most senior official in Stormont’s agriculture department questioned sacked whistleblower Tamara Bronckaers being...
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Northern Ireland’s chief vet personally authorised the expenditure of taxpayers’ money in an attempt to overturn a ju...
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A civil servant gushingly told two colleagues they were “a credit to your profession” after the two men — who had for...
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Four months after the head of the Civil Service announced an independent review of the appalling treatment of a whist...
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Northern Ireland’s chief vet was regularly involved in Civil Service discussions about how to handle the case of a wh...
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The scandal surrounding a whistleblower vet hounded out of her job deepened tonight as it emerged the Department of A...
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When you open this newspaper a week from today, the votes will be counted, and debate will centre not on who will be ...
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The Head of the Civil Service on Friday night moved to set up an independent review of the appalling treatment of a w...
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The body which has the power to stop vets from practising has said that it will examine the conduct of Northern Irela...
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Bosses in Stormont’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs have run away from scrutiny over the wh...
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Stormont is remaining silent about who took the decision to appeal the devastating judgment in favour of whistleblowe...
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It was after Tamara Bronckaers had attempted to get Stormont’s agriculture department to investigate animal moves bei...
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For a year, Tamara Bronckaers tried to warn senior Stormont colleagues about animal suffering and abuse of the livest...
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Imagine refusing the clear instruction of your boss, who specifies that he doesn’t want you to do something you know ...
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The Stormont department that hounded a whistleblower out of her job for exposing animal suffering and potential fraud...
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The first Executive minister has broken ranks to criticise the treatment of a civil service whistleblower who was for...
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A civil servant involved in hounding a whistleblower vet out of her job has been promoted to deputy chief vet — despi...
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A Stormont department has “unreservedly apologised” and abandoned its attempt to overturn a devastating industrial tr...
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After being asked five times for a copy of a civil servant’s register of interests, a Stormont department has refused...
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The new head of the Civil Service has declined to say whether it is acceptable for a Stormont department to attempt t...
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A Stormont department is using taxpayers’ money to attempt to overturn a devastating judgment that raised serious con...
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