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...
EU TO ESTABLISH A JOBS VACANCY MONITOR 4,000,000 job vacancies in Europe!
The European Commission is to set up a European Vacancy Monitor which will give up-to-the minute information on job vacancies across the whole of the European Union, the Director of the European Commission Representation Office in Dublin said today (September 15). In...
LIQUIDATION OF ANGLO-IRISH BANK WOULD HAVE ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES
Allowing Anglo-Irish Bank to collapse would have had enormous consequences, newly appointed chairman Alan Dukes told the June AEJ lunch (June 24). In a largely off-the-record address to members, he said the aim of management was now to spread the huge losses over as...
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...