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Entries Tagged as 'Irish Media'

Members of the Garda Siochána are gay – earth still turns!

August 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Homophobia, Irish Media

It’s a Sunday in August and the Sindo is rolling out it’s usual bigoted claptrap trying to be salacious drivel! Jim Cusack – the security correspondent with the Irish Independent/Sunday Independent might be seen to start the engine of a witchhunt against gay Gardai in this mornings lead story on the numbers of gay Gardai […]

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New blogs in the Irish Times

July 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics

So a few weeks after going free the Irish Times is going all bloggy on us. Joining Conor Pope and Jim Carroll last week was Brian Mukandi with Outside In which is definitely a much needed eye on Ireland from the outside inside and it’s getting a lot of interest and interaction if one looks […]

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J’accuse

April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Bertie Wobbles, Irish Media, Irish Politics

Bertie Ahern says that the media don’t seem to care much for parliamentary reporting anymore? Deaglan De Bréadún (subs. required) reporting a speech yesterday by Mr. Ahern says that the media are more interested in celebrity than parliament. …In an address to the Irish Parliamentary (former members) Society at Leinster House, Mr Ahern said politicians […]

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Eoghan Harris, the bloggers, grief and Michael Clifford

April 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Bertie Wobbles, Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Tribunals

As promised earlier this week and I know it’s old news now but posterity and all that! The infamous interview that Senator Eoghan Harris gave on the Last Word on Wednesday when Bertie fell on his sword – and Harris’s spat with Michael Clifford. (I’ve also learnt how to cut and edit audio files tonight […]

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Blogging in the Dock – Harris the prosecutor

April 2nd, 2008 · 9 Comments · Bertie Wobbles, Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Social Media

I’m searching for the audio on the soon to be legendary interview with Eoghan Harris this evening on the Last Word on Today FM – but Anthony at Public Enquiry has the transcript. (Blogs might have helped a bit and talked about it and done the sums but as for the rest I think we’d […]

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