A free half day session for on Online/Social Media for campaigning groups and NGO’s (especially those running campaigns to empower communities) will be held on December 8th. Hosted by the European Commission and organised by Damien Mulley the session will look at case studies using Web, Twitter and Facebook and will have inputs from NGO’s [...]
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One of the most active posts on my blog is the one about the Victoria Jackson make up sales people. A lot of people who worked for the company or who interviewed with them and other companies like them have left comments. (It seems these companies do marketing (AKA Sales) for a lot of other [...]
Continuing the series of ‘watching them watching us’ coming up to the debate on the Civil Partnership Bill. Tomorrow morning on Ocean FM in the North-West there will be a debate on Civil Partnership legislation between Izzy Kamikaze a ‘fearless’ local lesbian and Mary Doherty from Renew, a fairly new organisation which was linked to [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Gay community·Ocean FM·Society and Culture
The Burning Issues research launched today by the National Lesbian and Gay Federation comes shortly before the debating of the Civil Partnership Bill. Yesterday evening a number of LGBT organisations were invited to the Equality Authority for a briefing on the Bill. As Tipster says it’s a bit odd that GLEN could not/did not want [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·European Commission·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Gay community·Same-sex marriage·Society and Culture
Handed in this morning. A shirt and tie. No word on the quality of the items, Charvais or otherwise. I know Senators were up late last night and may have been busy between votes but I’m relieved to say all the members I observed were fully clothed. Wonder will the found articles be reclaimed. If [...]
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The Seanad is debating the NAMA Bill and Alexia began a live blog of the debate yesterday which for this injured chicken was a delightful way of continuing my recuperation! Some intriguing questions – Where was Shane Ross during the debate – ‘Business Regulation Expert’ too busy promoting the book? Or too wary of speaking [...]
Tags:Dan Boyle·David Norris·Frances Fitzgerald·Jerry Buttimer·Joe O'Toole·Seanad·Shane Ross
Fresh from interrupting the Today with Pat Kenny outside broadcast in the Savoy Cinema in O’Connell Street in Dublin, the Community Development Alliance launched CAMA outside the GPO yesterday. (You can listen to the interruption here – (real player required and it’s about 41 minutes in.) Conor Lenihan and George Lee were said to be [...]
Tags:CAMA·Community Development Alliance·John Curran·Pat Kenny
The online news evangelist and tweeter extraordinare (@marklittlenews) is heading for the superhighway on a years leave of absence. Best of luck to him! RTÉ Prime Time presenter, Mark Little, has announced that he is taking a year’s leave of absence from RTÉ in the New Year to pursue a project combining digital media and [...]
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While unions, government and the private sector bicker over pay cuts, higher taxation and ‘you earn more than I do’, communities across the land are being decimated by cuts, amalgamations and the steamroller that is the politics of bulldozing the oppressed. The cuts in services in the field of anti-poverty projects, community childcare, community health, [...]
Tags:Community development·Disability·Drug rehabilitation·Government·Ireland·Poverty·Society and Culture
People following me on twitter or reading the liveblogs are probably sick to the teeth of my ranting through the last few weeks about Vincent Browne’s problem with women. For a broadcaster so obsessed with equality this season’s show on TV3 has been marked by a lack of female guest on the first part of [...]
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