by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Ireland’s day-to-day spending will have to be cut back sharply for years, the country’s European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy warned a the Commissioner’s Annual Christmas Lunch for the Association of European Journalists.. “People shouldn’t kid...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The Irish economy may not fully recover until 2014 because the Government will have to raise taxes to restore stability to the public finances, Professor John FitzGerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute told the AEJ at a lunch on Tuesday, December 2....
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The result of the Lisbon Treaty referendum of 12 June has created considerable challenges for Ireland and for all EU Member States, the Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Mary Coughlan TD told the AEJ. The Tánaiste,...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The Irish Section recently signed a deal with OSK Auditors and Accountants who will audit the AEJ’s annual returns in return for sponsorship of the website www.aej.ie. This follows the Irish Section’s incorporation as a limited company in 2007 and the consequent...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The Irish section hosted Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley and Brendan Butler, Director of EU and International Affairs with IBEC at its May lunch meeting on Friday, May 23. Arguing for a ‘No’ vote in the Lisbon referendum on June 12, Declan Ganley said that...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Irish AEJ member Joe Carroll recently attended a meeting of the UK Section of the Association of European Journalists in London at which Christopher Walker of Freedom House presented their latest global survey on Freedom of the Press. Here is Joe’s report: ‘I was made...
