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Here’s a New Year’s resolution suggestion for you. By all means keep using facebook, twitter and google+ to chat with people, meet new ones and keep up with old friends. But for goodness sake, when you have something real to say- something that needs more than 140 characters- don’t stick it on a site owned by someone else.
The NDRC have been admirably responsive to the issues I've raised in my post. Amy Neale of the NDRC has been good enough to come back to me with a graciously worded response to my self-admitted numeracy-challenged efforts to make sense of the Return on Investment for the public money invested by the Centre.
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 Colette Browne recently about the competition which prompted me to write about the aims of the competition as I perceived them.
The New 27 Bus RouteDear SirsI 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 new route and timetable was introduced. On Monday morning, I experienced a 20 minute wait at peak time for a bus to take me from Glin Rd towards city Centre.
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.
My appeal of the decision to turn down my FOI request for documents relating to RTE's offer to licence video to members of the National Newspapers of Ireland has now been decided. As you can see below, 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.
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 the competition’s finances, we were told that wouldn’t be released until after the results were announced.
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). One: 18th July 2011I wish to acknowledge receipt of your request and accompanying fee made under the FOI Act.
Enda Kenny, yesterday gave one of the most extraordinary speeches in recent Irish history. Just one week after the publication of the latest report into child sex abuse by Catholic priests in the country, the Taoiseach vehemently attacked the Vatican State for its role in covering up cases of child sex abuse in Ireland.
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 York politics. You could almost call it the Fianna Fáil of old New York.
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