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 […]
Tags:Bishop of Clogher·Bishop Willie Walsh·Canon Law·Catholic Church·Donal Murray·Joseph Duffy