by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Dear Peter, On the weekend of November 5/6, one of the two biggest muslim holidays, the Sacrifice Holiday, began. To mark the occasion, the Freedom For Journalists Platform (GOP), which includes AEJ Turkey, began a national and international campaign of sending...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Both Ireland and the wider European project are at perilous stages in their histories, the new Minister for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton told the July lunch of the AEJ (July 8). Minister Creighton was the first Minister from the new Irish Government to address...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Press freedom is an essential cornerstone of democracy but it is under permanent pressure from a variety of sources, the Editor of The Irish Times, Geraldine Kennedy, told the Association of European Journalists in Dublin. The purpose of journalism was to serve the...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Present: Eileen Dunne, Martin Alioth, Tim Ryan, Kevin Healy, Mike Burns, Simone Rapple, Tom MacSweeney, Rodney Rice, Andrew Sheppard, Dermot Scott, Seán MacCartaigh, Joe Carroll and Michael Fisher. The Secretary, Martin Alioth, gave an account of the past year...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The EU/IMF rescue package is not in the in the long term best interests of Ireland, Labour Party Deputy Leader and Finance Spokeswoman Joan Burton told the AEJ. Speaking to the Association on Tuesday, February 8, Deputy Burton said the political turmoil in the Fianna...
