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Entries Tagged as 'Irish Media'

It’s not about the age of consent

March 5th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Irish Media, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer

There are parts of this saga worthy of Tuppenceworth‘s Paper Round and other parts which I have been thinking about a lot over the past few days without the ‘assistance’ of yesterdays less than stunning piece of investigative journalism in the Sunday Tribune. The 14 year old boy in north Dublin who went looking for […]

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Who’s funding the Iona Institute?

January 8th, 2007 · 13 Comments · David Quinn, Iona Institute, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Uncategorized

Come on David Quinn spill the beans? Otherwise I expect Michael McDowell and Bertie Ahern to make similar statements querying the modus operandi of your new institute. This time last year they were busy sinking the Centre for Public Inquiry because they didn’t like money from outside Ireland funding a private body investigating the state […]

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Happy New Year and Blogging the Election

January 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Personal, Social Media

Well It’s been quiet at Maman Poulet the last few weeks as I’ve travelled around abit doing festive things and today started a new job which due to the nature of the work involved I won’t be blogging about! Mulley is doing his usual 500 things at the one time and the blog awards date […]

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Paper Round ala Maman Poulet

December 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media

Excuse me whilst I have a tuppence inspired paper round moment! The Irish Independent tells us today that Fine Gael’s Jim O’Leary is breaking new ground in webcasting his message for the under 35 age group and he’s paying some company money for it too! Should have gone to the Blogging the Election Conference Jim […]

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How not to deal with ethnicity and race issues in education part 2.

December 12th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Podcasting, Uncategorized

Bernie Goldbach was looking for someone – probably me –  to bite in his latest edition of podcasting.ie.  Goddess forbid that any of the students who made the podcast that I wrote about here would actually talk about or respond to the issues made in the post or comments. And of course actually talking to […]

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