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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Fact Check'
Going Offline
July 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Going Offline · Blogging, Fact Check, Niall McElwee, Social Media
I’m offline now until Monday – it’s been a very interesting week as a blogger, lots of traffic, lots of comments, and lots of editing, moderating and deleting of comments. Those who’s comments I had to delete or edit were very nice about it! Thank you. Eoin O’Dell and Simon McGarr’s wise words at Bar […]
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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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Niall McElwee – did something happen in Waterford Institute of Technology?
July 14th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Fact Check, Niall McElwee, Uncategorized
I have received information that the Minister for Education was contacted during Niall McElwee’s tenure in Waterford Institute of Technology by other staff members expressing concern at numerous irregularities surrounding his employment there. No action or reply was received from the Minister in response to this complaint according to my informant. Given the nature of […]
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Athlone Institute of Technology were in the dark?
July 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Fact Check, Niall McElwee, Uncategorized
Well the Midlands Health Board and a member of An Garda Siochana (and his colleagues) knew about what happened in Amsterdam? So why didn’t Athlone Institute of Technology? The assault took place during a health board funded visit. Update: So the issues? The Garda look like they are doing their usual – ‘this is what […]
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