If you are a regular reader you know the drill by now – The Donegal News arrives in the house and I get bits read out to me and eventually I go ‘WHAT?!’ This weeks ‘gem’ in the court reports is on page 30 of last Friday’s edition. Footage of street row ‘disappeared ‘ from […]
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Tonight watching X Factor and reading my twitter stream I saw a few too many jokes about Susan Boyle’s mental health and intellectual disability. Some people seem to have found other people’s jokes funny too and retweeted them. Colm O’ Gorman, (Bio: Author, activist, director of Amnesty International Ireland) for one. And people wonder why […]
Tags:Activism·Amnesty International·Human Rights and Liberties·Mental Health·Susan Boyle
The online news evangelist and tweeter extraordinare (@marklittlenews) is heading for the superhighway on a years leave of absence. Best of luck to him! RTÉ Prime Time presenter, Mark Little, has announced that he is taking a year’s leave of absence from RTÉ in the New Year to pursue a project combining digital media and […]
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The weekly ritual that is the reading out of ‘interesting’ bits of the paper from home took place in the henhouse yesterday. Given that my partner is from Donegal it is the Donegal News that she tries to entertain me with. After a few pages of court reports involving scraps, using false driving licences bought […]
Tags:Closed-circuit television·Crime and Justice·Cross-examination·Donegal News·Garda Síochána·Public order crime
The soon to be monikered ‘Woodward and Bernstein’ of the Irish Blogosphere, Gavin Sheridan (Of Tribunal and other corruption blasting central blog, Gavinsblog) and whippersnapper Mark Coughlan (lately of Irishelection.com) last week launched TheStory.ie … dedicated to sharing documents, combing and combining data and promoting transparency in public life: An experiment in journalism and crowdsourcing […]
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