by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Ireland should follow New Zealand’s example in filling the world demand for milk and milk products once the EU quota system end in 2015, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney told the Association of European Journalists on Friday, July...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The role of social media in the surge of revolutionary fervour from Tunisia, to Tahrir Square, to Benghazi and beyond, provides an immediate and illuminating example of the capacity of a free media to promote radical change, the Minister for Communications, Energy and...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Members hear of huge potential for Irish food and drinks exports February’s AEJ lunch was kindly sponsored by An Bord Bia and members heard a very stimulating presentation from CEO Aidan Cotter. He began by asking two key issues which are critical to Ireland’s food...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
To mark Ireland’s Presidency of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe, the first AEJ lunch of 2012 was addressed by Frank Cogan, Head of the OSCE Taskforce. This is Ireland’s first time to chair the Vienna-based body although the country has...
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...