Thanks to the little birdies who let me know that the Directors of Dublin Pride have commenced a review of the Pride Festival 2010. The festival appeared to have the best profile ever with plenty of mainstream media coverage and a great turn out at many events including 22,000 marching during the Pride Parade. I’ve [...]
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I’ve taken a little blogging break here for the last ten days or so, but it’s not been completely quiet. You may have noted the post exploring the campaign for marriage and the change in how marriage is interpreted which I wrote earlier this week on The (Fabulous) AntiRoom. I think some of the point [...]
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Senator Mullen has been all over the radio today – He started on Morning Ireland, topped the news headlines as the day went on, went on Today FM, and ended up on Newstalk. In between he was spamming some people on his mailing list (s) – at 8.20am and 5.35pm, blogging (psst it’s not a [...]
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If it’s the summer it must be time for Peninsula Ireland to publish research and get unquestioning news coverage. For previous episodes of ‘dodgy research getting press coverage syndrome’ please see here here and here . For those of you unaware – the way this works is – Peninsula do research on employment related topic, [...]
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Information coming thick and fast regarding the surprise news last night concerning the decision to investigate a complaint against Senator Rónán Mullen. I have received a copy of the complaint made to the Seanad Committee on Members Interests by Martin O’Sullivan from the People Before Profit Alliance Jody Blake Committee on Members’ Interests of Seanad [...]
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This evening the Seanad Committee on Members Interests released a statement outlining the terms of their investigation into complaints against four members of the Oireachtas. I’m putting the basis of the complaints as I understand them in brackets beside each member being investigated – Ivor Callely, (phones etc.) Ann Ormonde (claiming from Waterford whilst holiday [...]
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This weekend all thoughts turn to the North West and it’s annual Pride celebration. Now in it’s fifth year the friendliest, most inclusive pride celebration in Ireland is always seeking new ways of celebrating and marking diversity and reaching out to local communities both lgbt and the ‘straight and not narrow’. Events will take place [...]
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This evening Senator Ivor Callely was suspended from membership of Fianna Fáil pending an investigation – this follows his resignation of the whip of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party last month. Ogra Fianna Fáíl have tonight released a statement saying that they are going to move a motion looking for his expulsion from the party. [...]
The email below was flying around a few people in Ireland today – it would seem that the rumours were true, Jolitics.com – the new political social networking site is getting rolled out in Ireland first. The person helping the Bebo founder Michael Birch with his Irish launch is Paddy Cosgrave, founder of Dublin Web [...]
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He’s still about – speaking at summer school type things in Central and Eastern Europe. In May he spoke at a conference organised by a think thank called the Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe – the majority of the agenda was on a crisis in Western Liberalism and the threat of Islam on [...]
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