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LIQUIDATION OF ANGLO-IRISH BANK WOULD HAVE ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES

LIQUIDATION OF ANGLO-IRISH BANK WOULD HAVE ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES

Allowing Anglo-Irish Bank to collapse would have had enormous consequences, newly appointed chairman Alan Dukes told the June AEJ lunch (June 24). In a largely off-the-record address to members, he said the aim of management was now to spread the huge losses over as...
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MICHEAL MARTIN ADDRESSES AEJ

MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MICHEAL MARTIN ADDRESSES AEJ

Ireland must become more pro-active in the post-Lisbon Treaty Europe and encourage a better response from the organs of Government, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin told the AEJ today (5 May). Addressing the May lunch which also marked World Press...
GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC ADVISOR ADRESSES AEJ

GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC ADVISOR ADRESSES AEJ

An outline of the causes of the economic crisis in Ireland and how the Government was dealing with them was given in an off-the-record address to the AEJ on March 3 by Dr Alan Ahearne, Advisor to the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD. There was a large attendance...

FRENCH POWER AND INFLUENCE IN EU CRITICISED BY MCCREEVY

Ireland’s outgoing EU Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy today (December 18) launched a caustic attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and on the extent of French power and influence in the EU. In a speech to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin, Mr...
DO NOT REPLACE CHURCH AS OPPRESSOR, BISHOP TELLS MEDIA

DO NOT REPLACE CHURCH AS OPPRESSOR, BISHOP TELLS MEDIA

The Bishop of Killaloe, Most Rev Willie Walsh has warned the media not to become “oppressive”, as the Catholic Church had once been. Addressing a meeting of the AEJ in Dublin on Friday, November 13, the Bishop also said the Ryan report did not do “full justice” to...