Yes it surprised me also. Next Monday night a public debate on Politics and the Media will be held in Galway City Museum at 8 pm. Hosted by the Galway Green Party the panel will debate the relationship between old and new media and politics and given garglegate last week and #simoncoveneysfault promises to be [...]
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Lenihan was at the races when the head of the ECB called and he didn’t remember Cowen swearing during the talks where the Government guarantee was agreed on. And oh Brian Lenihan can speak French. What else can we garner from last nights Freefall other than the programme makers love shots of traffic and big [...]
If you were to name your LGBT Friendly Politician of the Year who would you include? Senator David Norris? (well if he wasn’t gay friendly that’d be a problem) Senator Ivana Bacik (won the title last year) Senator Eoghan Harris? Yes Eoghan Harris – he’s made the shortlist for the GALAS – The awards ceremony [...]
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While #Fag-gate starts to rumble (it’s still August unfortunately) some political correspondents are clearly desperate for news to joke about it. It is a joke right? Niamh Lyons is a political correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail – wishful tweeting? It’s not the usual political correspondent tweet (no they’re not all devoid of humour but [...]
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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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No contact received yet from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission asking me to take down the picture tweeted by Minister Ciaran Cuffe in the Dáil bar last Thursday night which I blogged shortly afterwards. The picture showed politicians and members of the lesbian and gay community celebrating the passage of the Civil Partnership Bill. [...]
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Published today is a document detailing the coverage RTE have given to the situation surrounding civil partnership legislation and matters pertaining to the legal recognition of same sex relationships. Prepared by Karl Hayden I’ll leave it to him to explain why he put a great amount of effort into producing this list. One of the [...]
Who checked that the people who took part in the RTE Prime Time Investigates programme last night and if they truly understood how they would be portrayed in the programme or even wanted to participate? I refer to the people diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimers. Their families were no doubt asked and consented for them [...]
Tags:Alzheimer's disease·Dementia·Family·Raidió Teilifís Éireann
There was a bit of toing and froing between RTE and the Catholic Communications Office this week over a report on PrimeTime last Tuesday on the problems facing the Catholic Church and on the decision by Cardinal Sean Brady to stay in office. The report featured a number of inaccuracies that I spotted myself on [...]
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National media reported last Wednesday that a senior official from Wicklow County Council was arrested in connection with an investigation into the deaths of two fire fighters in the county in 2007. It was some senior official – and it took the local press to report that the person arrested was in fact the County [...]
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