COVENEY OUTLINES HUGE POTENTIAL FOR IRISH AGRICULTURE
Ireland should follow New Zealand's example in filling the world demand for milk and milk products once the EU quota system end in 2015, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney told the Association of European Journalists on Friday, July 19th....
RABBITTE UNDERLINES INCREASING ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
The role of social media in the surge of revolutionary fervour from Tunisia, to Tahrir Square, to Benghazi and beyond, provides an immediate and illuminating example of the capacity of a free media to promote radical change, the Minister for Communications, Energy and...
BORD BIA HOSTS AEJ LUNCH
Members hear of huge potential for Irish food and drinks exports February’s AEJ lunch was kindly sponsored by An Bord Bia and members heard a very stimulating presentation from CEO Aidan Cotter. He began by asking two key issues which are critical to Ireland’s food...
AEJ MARKS IRELAND’S PRESIDENCY OF THE OSCE
To mark Ireland’s Presidency of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe, the first AEJ lunch of 2012 was addressed by Frank Cogan, Head of the OSCE Taskforce. This is Ireland’s first time to chair the Vienna-based body although the country has...
LETTER FROM AEJ TURKISH SECTION TO AEJ GENERAL SECRETARY PETER KRAMER
Dear Peter, On the weekend of November 5/6, one of the two biggest muslim holidays, the Sacrifice Holiday, began. To mark the occasion, the Freedom For Journalists Platform (GOP), which includes AEJ Turkey, began a national and international campaign of sending...
IRELAND AND EU AT PERILOUS STAGES IN THEIR HISTORIES – CREIGHTON
Both Ireland and the wider European project are at perilous stages in their histories, the new Minister for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton told the July lunch of the AEJ (July 8). Minister Creighton was the first Minister from the new Irish Government to address...
PRESS FREEDOM A CORNERSTONE OF DEMOCRACY
Press freedom is an essential cornerstone of democracy but it is under permanent pressure from a variety of sources, the Editor of The Irish Times, Geraldine Kennedy, told the Association of European Journalists in Dublin. The purpose of journalism was to serve the...
Minutes of AGM held in the EU Representation Offices on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11.30am
Present: Eileen Dunne, Martin Alioth, Tim Ryan, Kevin Healy, Mike Burns, Simone Rapple, Tom MacSweeney, Rodney Rice, Andrew Sheppard, Dermot Scott, Seán MacCartaigh, Joe Carroll and Michael Fisher. The Secretary, Martin Alioth, gave an account of the past year...
EU/IMF DEAL MUST BE RENEGOTIATED – BURTON
The EU/IMF rescue package is not in the in the long term best interests of Ireland, Labour Party Deputy Leader and Finance Spokeswoman Joan Burton told the AEJ. Speaking to the Association on Tuesday, February 8, Deputy Burton said the political turmoil in the Fianna...
NEW IRISH REPRESENTATION OFFICE DIRECTOR HOSTS CHRISTMAS LUNCH
An overview of the European Commission’s agenda for the 2011 was given the AEJ by new Director of the Irish Representation Office Barbara Nolan when she hosted the annual Christmas in the Stephen’s Green & Hibernian Club on Monday, December 13. Among the items on...
RTE NEWSCASTER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF AEJ (EUROPE)
RTE newscaster Eileen Dunne has been elected President of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) European-wide umbrella body. Ms Dunne, who is Chair of the Irish Section of the AEJ, was elected President during the AEJ’s 48th Annual Congress, held in Ordu,...
SPIRALLING PRICE OF IRELAND’S DEBT LEAVES SOMERS ‘AGHAST’
The former chief executive of the body that manages government debt has said he is "aghast" at the surge in the cost of our borrowing on international markets. Addressing the Association of European Journalist (AEJ) today (September 17), Mr Michael Somers, who retired...