Feb 26, 2015
Bolstered by a good number of our colleagues from Northern Ireland, the Irish AEJ met in Belfast, on Friday, March 7th. Thanks to trojan efforts from our member, Michael Fisher, we were addressed by The Rt. Hon. Theresa Villiers, MP, Secretary of State for Northern...
Feb 26, 2015
The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, has pledged to widen income tax bands as soon as the State can afford it to take people out of the higher tax bracket. Mr Noonan told the Association of European Journalists on Friday, February 7, that the biggest problem...
Feb 26, 2015
European Commission approval of Permanent TSB’s restructuring plan is still some months away, despite the bank’s hopes that it could be achieved by the end of December, European Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia told a meeting of the Association of...
Feb 26, 2015
Candidates in next year’s European elections are likely to need a budget of € 100,000 to run an effective campaign following the redrawing of the State’s constituency boundaries, Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has told the AEJ. Mr Hogan said...
Feb 26, 2015
On Wednesday, June 19th, human rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim spoke to an AEJ luncheon meeting at the St. Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club. In her passionate introduction, she told the meeting of her career which led her from a muslim village in northern Nigeria to...
Feb 26, 2015
On Friday, May 3rd, several events took place in Dublin to mark international World Press Freedom Day. The Irish section of the Association of European Journalists hosted a lunch at the Stephen’s Green/Hibernian Club at which the guest was Dáithí...
