Archive for May, 2002
Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
Well, we're out the far side of the general election here in Ireland. Its been a bad one for Fine Gael (lost 24 seats, ending at 31, and 20% of their vote, ending up with about 22%), and a poor one for Labour (we stayed on 21 seats, and sank ...
Posted in Electoral politics | Comments Off on More election news, and senate predictions
Tuesday, May 14th, 2002
We're coming to the end of the election campaign here in Ireland - I've been out most evenings, canvassing for the Labour Party. Its been a fairly hectic few months, what with the abortion referendum and now this.
Looking to the future, it appears likely that there'll be a rerun of ...
Posted in Electoral politics | Comments Off on Irish election update
Monday, May 13th, 2002
It's been a while, but its not been through apathy. I actually had a few draft 'blog entries disappear when my machine crashed, which wasn't the most fun.
Among the items in the last while are the Oxygen Student Media Awards. While its nice to see student media receive more recognition ...
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2002
Slides (pdf) from my talk to the Publications Society in Maynooth
Posted in Freedom of the press | Comments Off on Media Law and Defamation