News in the AEJ

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...

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 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...

Agriculture and Rural Development are part of the Jobs, Growth and Investment priority at the heart of the Juncker Commission. Indeed, I have already begun working with Vice-President Katainen in the Project Team linked to this priority. As a strategic sector,...

Address by Kevin Bakhurst, Head of News and Current Affairs and Deputy DG, RTE, at speakers lunch Friday, 11th September, 2015 2016 will be a huge year in Ireland – it’s a time to commemorate the Easter Rising and the birth of the Irish State; it’s most likely a time...

Derek Davis, who died in Dublin on 13 May at the age of 67 after a brief illness, was a renowned Irish broadcaster. After working as a freelance news reporter  for the American network, ABC, during the years of bitter civil conflict in Northern Ireland  he joined the...

The chairman of the Association of European Journalists, Richard Moore, has passed on his condolences to the family of former RTE broadcaster, Derek Davis, who has died. Mr Moore said: “On behalf of the membership of the Irish Section of the AEJ, I would like to...