Your Country Your Call: FOI reveals a System of the World

The key document released to Rossa McMahon following his FOI appeal to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation was An Smaoineamh Mór's proposal document for the Your Country Your Call competition. It is valuable because it exposes more than just this particular set of proposals. It reveals the relationship between Fianna Fáil's public, elected, face and its much larger invisible manifestation.

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Free Tickets to see The Pipe in the IFI

Regular readers will know that Tuppenceworth is interested in the transpirings and doings around Rossport and the Corrib estuary over the last few years. There is currently, as in this week, an Irish produced documentary in the Art House cinema of Ireland, the IFI. The Pipe has won awards on the festival circuit, and has picked up some very strong reviews.

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Do Not Want

The part of the tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes that is often forgotten is what happens after the little boy in the crowd shouts his heresy. You might think that his shout would break the spell, and the brute reality would dawn on all participants, the king suddenly grabbing a coat from a minion to preserve his modesty.

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Your Country Your Call: SIPO reopens the door to evidence

The Standards in Public Office Commission recently rejected an application by me, amongst others, for an investigation of the Your Country Your Call competition and lobbying effort. You can read their rejection, and my analysis of its shortcomings in Your Country Your Call: SIPO fail the test.

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Irish Journalists- Can We Trust You?

UPDATE: Well, that took less time to answer then I expected. The next five days are going to see a lot of things happening all at once. One of those things will be the making and breaking of news organisations' (and individual journalists') professional reputations.

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