Irish news in brief

Friday's Irish Times (subs. req'd) has a short article headlined "[National Toll Roads] Ltd: who owns it?" The context is the stream of revelations about the disastrously one-sided concession the company was given by the government on a bottleneck toll bridge -- and it turns out, an associated stretch of motorway -- by the government. But it doesn't tell the readers what they really need to know about NTR, so we will:

National Toll Roads is the bastard child of Cement Roadstone, which itself is the construction wing of Fianna Fail.

Start Googling (example, example). You'll see it's the truth.