Nick Webb (born 1971) is an Irish journalist. He succeeded his father-in-law

Shane Ross Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross (born 11 July 1949) is an Irish former Independent politician who served as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport from May 2016 to June 2020. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency from 2 ...

as Business Editor at the '' Sunday Independent'' when Ross was elected as a TD. Webb married Rebecca Ross, Shane Ross's daughter, in July 1997. In 2009, he and

were jointly honoured both as business journalist of the year and as overall Journalist of the Year. He had previously been Smurfit Business school specialist reporter of the year in 2008. '' Sunday Independent'' journalist Nick Webb broke the

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with

in October 2008, before they exposed the culture of corruption and waste at semi-state transport company

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. The pair have written a bestselling book called ''Wasters'', exposing the scandal of "the people who squander your taxes on

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projects, international junkets and favours for their mates - and how they get away with it". Published by Penguin in October 2010. Other books published by the duo are ''The Untouchables'' (2012) and ''The Bankers'' (2009). In a November 2018 RTE broadcast of Ireland's Rich List, Nick courted controversy by describing the tragedy of the 9-11 terrorist attack in New York as "a really big moment" for Declan Ganley, who saw an investment opportunity in the lack of communication between emergency services on the day.

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