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Mahon Tribunal traffic
As a result of Ahern’s announcement, traffic to the Mahon Tribunal wiki has surged. I guess I should welcome colleagues from the BBC, Associated Newspapers, The Guardian, News International (Times), Sky News and the The Washington Post. PS. I should ask Sadie Gray to perhaps contact me to clear up a number factual inaccuracies in…
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The media reaction and more questions
Now we have to see how the media reacts to the news. So far RTE television have been bringing on a stream of FF deputies. And each of them runs the usual ‘trial by media’ line. This is clearly nonsense. The media in fact did not go out of its way to criticise Ahern, all…
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Bertie Ahern announcement
If he says it’s all over now, fine. If he says it’s all over after the speech to Congress, fine. If he puts a date on his departure within the next six months. Not good enough. Upate: May 6, he’s a gonner. Saying that this had nothing to do with Grainne Carruth’s evidence is bullshit.…
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Downing Street on Twitter and Flickr
No 10 have opened a Flickr account. Now how long before the Taoiseach does the same? *snigger* https://www.flickr.com/photos/downingstreet They are also twittering.
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3G iPhone in May?
So sayeth the rumours. I will hold off even thinking of a purchase until I see the 3G iPhone.
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Two questions…
On Friday’s Late Late show, Eamon Dunphy repeatedly pointed to an article by Gene Kerrigan in the Sunday Independent of March 23 . (It was, incidentally, a very good article). 1. Why can I not find this article on the Independent’s website? 2. Why did Eoghan Harris replace Gene Kerrigan on the back page of…
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Internet censorship in Dubai
This leaked internal document details the kind of websites that are censored in the UAE. Interesting reading.
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Politics.ie gets a takedown notice
Politics.ie looks like it will be subject of legal action on the part of Mr Ahern’s solictors. Update: P O’Neill informs me that the site has moved its hosting to the US.
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The Beresford deal
Ah. It is refreshing to see someone joining the dots. I’ll cut to the chase here. The IT hints at something I have been digging up for the last couple of weeks, thanks mostly to some archived posts on Politics.ie. You see, I only found out recently that Michael Wall withdrew £50,000 in cash from…
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Better late than never…?
It may be over a week late, but it seems that the media is waking up to the Ahern story. The Easter holidays may have caught everyone on the hop, perhaps. Last week I was literally stunned by the lack of reaction to Carruth’s evidence. Not a whisper from RTE. Not much from the Irish…
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