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Brexit must not distract EU from core values
By Mairead McGuinness MEP, Vice President of the European Parliament. Address to the 2016 AEJ Congress, Kilkenny. The EU needs to be careful that Brexit does not become the tail that wags the dog and results in the EU 27 losing focus on the major challenges and...
Brexit: Real UK leaders must stand up says AIB Chairman Richard Pym
Speech by AIB Chairman Richard Pym As a British citizen, chairing an Irish bank, previously chairing a Swedish bank, with a family in America, spreading my time between three countries and paying taxes in two, I probably come close to being the global citizen...
Key Brexit Priorities: address by Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan TD at Congress 2016
Just two days ago, our Taoiseach – Prime Minister – and myself hosted the first of a series of Brexit civic dialogue events in Dublin, bringing together well over 200 people from all across this island, north and south. The objective of this dialogue process is to...
Brexit centre stage at AEJ Congress
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charles Flanagan TD, is to give the keynote address on the potential impact of Brexit at a major conference which begins in Kilkenny tomorrow Friday (4th November) which will be attended by journalists from across Europe. Minister...
Minister Denis Naughten on future funding of public sector broadcasting
Speech by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten TD, at the AEJ Lunch, Thursday, October 13th, 2016. Within a few weeks of taking office I announced that I wouldn’t be seeking to introduce a Household Broadcasting Charge in the...
Kilkenny to host AEJ Congress
Kilkenny City is to host a major conference in November, drawing journalists from across Europe. The Association of European Journalists, a representative body for journalists working in over 22 countries in Europe, is to hold its annual Congress in the marble city....
What does “Brexit” mean for Ireland?
With Britain questioning its EU membership, Claire Fox asks what such a 'divorce' would mean for Ireland. Claire is a final year student in UCC studying English and French. This article won the European Commission National Student Media award (Smedia). Claire also won...
British Ambassador Dominick Chillcott addresses members
James Downey 1933-2016
By Mike Burns To his many thousands of readers he was ‘James Downey’. To colleagues and friends he was simply and affectionately Jim’.To President Michael D. Higgins he was “one of Ireland’s most committed journalists”.Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he was “a man of...
Brian Hayes MEP warns of consequences of Britain exiting EU
Brian Hayes MEP address on Friday, 15th April, Mont Clare Hotel, Dublin 2. "I am not convinced that there is enough contingency planning being done at government level on the Brexit referendum. There is an urgent need to put in place a stable government to prepare for...