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What is going on in the AEJPUBLIC SPENDING TO BE CUT BACK SHARPLY – McCREEVY
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 themselves into...
IRISH ECONOMY MAY NOT RECOVER UNTIL 2014 — FITZGERALD
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....
RESULTS OF LISBON TREATY POSES MAJOR CHALLENGES, TANAISTE TELLS AEJ
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,...
OSK TO SPONSOR AEJ WEBSITE
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...
Lisbon Treaty Debate
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 under the...
Freedom of the Press global survey
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...
IRISH SECTION HOSTS LISBON REFORM TREATY DEBATE
The AEJ Irish Section hosted a debate on the Lisbon Reform Treaty at the Stephen’s Green & Hibernian Club, Dublin 2 on Friday, April 10. Fine Gael MEP Mairéad McGuinness argued the case ‘for’ and Sinn Fein MEP May Lou McDonald the case ‘against’. Ms McDonald...
Jillian Van Turnhout addresses February AEJ lunch
On Friday, February 8, the Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Jillian Van Turnhout addressed the AEJ. Ms Turnhout is also a member of the European Economic and Social Committee, an institutional consultative body established by the 1957 Treaty of Rome....
The Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue TD has suggested that the demands of daily journalism may be leading to a trivialisation of politics
In a speech to the Association of European Journalists on Friday, January 11, the Ceann Comhairle (Speaker) John O'Donoghue said the commercial pressures on the media meant that they constantly needed "news" about events that happened "yesterday". However the most...
AEJ protest at evidence of systematic media bias in Russian elections
The AEJ Media Freedom Representative William Horsley sent a letter to the Chairman of the Central Election Commission in Russia, Mr Vladimir Churov, expressing concern about the “overwhelming evidence" of media bias in favour of United Russia in the current State Duma...