MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MICHEAL MARTIN ADDRESSES AEJ
Ireland must become more pro-active in the post-Lisbon Treaty Europe and encourage a better response from the organs of Government, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin told the AEJ today (5 May). Addressing the May lunch which also marked World Press...
GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC ADVISOR ADRESSES AEJ
An outline of the causes of the economic crisis in Ireland and how the Government was dealing with them was given in an off-the-record address to the AEJ on March 3 by Dr Alan Ahearne, Advisor to the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD. There was a large attendance...
FRENCH POWER AND INFLUENCE IN EU CRITICISED BY MCCREEVY
Ireland’s outgoing EU Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy today (December 18) launched a caustic attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and on the extent of French power and influence in the EU. In a speech to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin, Mr...
DO NOT REPLACE CHURCH AS OPPRESSOR, BISHOP TELLS MEDIA
The Bishop of Killaloe, Most Rev Willie Walsh has warned the media not to become “oppressive”, as the Catholic Church had once been. Addressing a meeting of the AEJ in Dublin on Friday, November 13, the Bishop also said the Ryan report did not do “full justice” to...
HIGGINS CALLS ON EU PRESIDENT TO SACK TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER
Socialist MEP and anti-Lisbon campaigner Joe Higgins has written to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, asking him to sack Vice-President and Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani for having taken part in a pro-Treaty campaign tour with the...
SAYING ‘NO’ TO LISBON WOULD BE TO REJECT A RE-BALANCING OF THE TREATIES IN FAVOUR OF SOCIAL PROTECTIONS
Ireland for Europe Campaign Director, Pat Cox, has said that the Lisbon Treaty is specifically designed to rebalance the existing treaties so that market forces would be matched by extra social protections. Mr Cox told a meeting of the Association of European...
TWO OUTGOING MEPs DEBATE ELECTION ISSUES AT AEJ LUNCH
On Friday, May 28, the AEJ hosted a debate between two outgoing European Parliament candidates, Eoin Ryan of Fianna Fáil and Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Féin. In her remarks, Ms McDonald said the Lisbon Treaty, while not coming up very much on the doorsteps was...
LABOUR PARTY LEADER WARNS ON LISBON TREATY CONCESSIONS
The Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore has warned that concessions must not be made by the Government to religious and social conservatives about the wording of guarantees to be negotiated before the Lisbon Treaty is put to a second referendum. Addressing the AEJ in...
IDEAL OPPORTUNITY FOR IRELAND TO RE-INVENT ITSELF
There is now an ideal opportunity open to Ireland to re-invent itself, Fine Gael Deputy leader and Finance Spokesman Richard Bruton told the AEJ’s February lunch in Dublin. Quoting President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who once said “You never want a serious...
AEJ SALUTES TWO MEMBERS
There was a large turnout for the Annul AEJ Christmas lunch hosted by Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy on Monday, December 8. At the lunch Mr McCreevy presented Honorary Life Membership to longtime member Brian Farrell. He also made a special...
PUBLIC 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....