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Entries Tagged as 'Equality'

Sharon Coughlan RIP

September 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Equality, Fact Check, MSM

Note – please see this post for the latest on this matter. I won’t comment on the case as someone is now facing charges but as for the coverage – well some of the Irish print media spent the last few days libeling the dead. I do hope that a lot of time is spent […]

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Fact checking third level teaching applicants

July 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Equality, Fact Check, Niall McElwee

Further details are reported today in the Sunday newspapers about the incident which led to the conviction of Niall McElwee in Amsterdam in 2005. The court reports are not pleasant reading. As reported on this blog yesterday evening, complaints about McElwee’s career progression made to the Minister of Education are also covered in today’s papers. […]

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Sean Power – Minister for State for Equality

June 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Equality, Gay, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Social Policy

We have a new Minister for State with Responsibility for Equality. Sean Power’s name rang a bell. I remember his speech during decriminalistion. Then a FF backbencher he was one of the very few backbench TD’s to make a speech during the debate – and I remember those of us watching it being very struck […]

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