Category Archives: General

All those post which do not fall into other catagories. A bit like Misc.

One job, no implementation: Why Your Country, Your Call was still a success

Posted on 16/10/2011 by Simon McGarr
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Readers will know that I have been following the looking-glass world of Your Country, Your Call for some time. I’ve lots of posts with facts and figures about the company. But there was a report in the Irish Examiner by … Continue reading →

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The 27 bus route has not been improved

Posted on 18/09/2011 by Simon McGarr
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The New 27 Bus Route Dear Sirs I write further to my telephone conversation with Phelim of your office today. I write to complain regarding the dramatic drop in quality of service on the 27 route since Monday, when the … Continue reading →

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The RTE Aggregator Excitement: What would I say?

Posted on 12/09/2011 by Simon McGarr
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Today, a number of very well known and established fashion and beauty blogs recieved the email below from RTE. XXXX from the RTÉ Fashion site here, I hope you’re well. We are relaunching the RTÉ fashion site (www.rte.ie/fashion ) in … Continue reading →

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Free The News: RTE refuse my FOI request, again, on appeal

Posted on 12/09/2011 by Simon McGarr
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The original decision has been upheld by RTE’s internal appeal process. It is now open to me to send a final appeal on to the Office of the Information Commissioner. Continue reading →

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Your Country Your Call: An Smaoineamh Mór Ltd’s Financial Statement

Posted on 11/08/2011 by Simon McGarr
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Throughout the Your Country, Your Call competition we were promised information would be made available later. When we asked who the donors were, were were told it would be released in a few weeks. When we asked for details of … Continue reading →

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RTE and its awareness of its obligations

Posted on 23/07/2011 by Simon McGarr
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I’ve received a few replies via my solicitor to my previous letters requesting RTE make the news footage available to Tuppenceworth on the same terms as those it is proposing for the members of the National Newspapers of Ireland (ie, for free). Continue reading →

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Why we should expel the Vatican’s Ambassador, the Papal Nuncio

Posted on 21/07/2011 by Simon McGarr
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Enda Kenny said yesterday that the Vatican downplayed the rape and torture of Irish children to to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’. We should expel the Vatican’s Papal Nuncio and send the message that they have destroyed the very things they prized the most. Continue reading →

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We The Citizens: The Goo Goo Dolls

Posted on 27/06/2011 by Fergal Crehan
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For a couple of centuries, New York City was politically dominated by the Democratic Party machine known as “Tammany Hall”. All-powerful and frankly corrupt, Tammany was the machine through which immigrants, particularly the Irish, rose through the ranks of New … Continue reading →

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ON FOLLY: A decade in one image

Posted on 16/06/2011 by Simon McGarr
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ON FOLLY, originally uploaded by Mulberrystreet. (With text to follow)

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Your Country, Your Call: The Sums

Posted on 17/05/2011 by Simon McGarr
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€2 million (Per An Smaoineamh Mór Chairman Dr. Laurence Crowley) minus €300,000 (gov money not paid) minus €150,000 (hard costs such as taxis and couriers) minus €200,000 (cash prize money already given out) ___________________________ €1,350,000 (Monies remaining) Like the Cotton … Continue reading →

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