News in the AEJ

Address by Dr Elaine Byrne, Chair of the Policing and Community Safety Authority Friday, 20th March, 2026 The Policing and Community Safety Authority, PCSA, was established on 2 April 2025 under the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024. We are an...

Ireland’s bilateral relationship with the U.S. is built on powerful historical, social and cultural links. Centuries of transatlantic migration have resulted in large Irish-American communities all across the U.S. Almost 32 million people in the U.S. claim Irish...

Friday, 28th November, 2025 I've lived an interesting life. I wanted to share it with a wider audience. You always have detractors – people who try to knock you back. I didn't let them impede me. I kept driving on. I was a very lucky journalist. I crossed...

Friday, 17th October, 2025. Grand Canal Hotel, Dublin 4. Attorney General Rossa Fanning SC told our gathering that the proliferation of legal challenges to legislation or to decisions by public bodies, especially in the planning and environmental areas, was of...

Address by Sean Gallagher, former Presidential candidate and entrepreneur, on Friday, 19th September, 2025, at the Grand Canal Hotel, Dublin. Campaigning for the Presidency is very arduous. I ran in both 2011 and 2018 and one of the challenges is securing a place...

Sean Kelly, Ireland South ME, said there were arguments for and against running for President. Speaking at out lunch on Thursday, 26th June, at the Clarence Hotel in Dublin, the MEP  highlighted comments from Ryanair boss Michael O’ Leary who described the...

Speech by Senator Michael McDowell, Grand Canal Hotel, Friday, 16th May, 2025 The single point of maximum vulnerability for the EU is its abject failure to deal with mass migration into Europe. That is the Achilles heel of centrist Europe. Incorporating an...

The Association of European Journalists (AEJ) expresses profound concern and unequivocally condemns the recent arrest of nine journalists in Istanbul. These detentions occurred amidst widespread protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on March...

Did the Covid-19 lockdowns do more harm than good? Did anything positive come from the pandemic? And how can we prepare for the next one? To try to answer these three questions, we must use science. Of all the things we do as humans, science is the most reliable way...

The International Press Institute (IPI), together with undersigned press freedom, freedom of expression, human rights, and journalists’ organizations, and media outlets, expresses serious concern over the recent escalation of press freedom violations in Turkey,...