Someone said something somewhere about someone else but no one can be told what the something they said was… May 28, 2015
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Economy, Irish Politics.trackback
…so much for Dáil privilege. RTÉ, the Irish Times, etc aren’t reporting on what Catherine Murphy TD said today in the Dáil due to legal pressure from you know who. The concept of Dáil privilege appears very shaky – does it not?
Addendum, Broadsheet are made of more resilient stuff. As is Murphy herself.
The Cedar Lounge Revolution 
And thank God for that!
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I’m not one given to paranoia much, but there’s something about all this, the display of certain aspects of power and the crumbling of opposition to it or indeed of certain time honoured processes like Dáil privilege which I find deeply disturbing.
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Get with the programme – democracy and independence of the legislature from the very, very rich is so, well, 20th century!
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Not to mention the press.
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The IT has a new article up. They’re sort of half reporting it.
In truth if right was right, O’Brien wouldn’t be able to show his face in public after the tribunal findings. Ditto Lowry, Hogan and the like.
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Sepp Blatter and [REDACTED] taken down in one week would be jelly AND icecream
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Hah! Blather could survive a nuclear strike. He has that Silvio Berlusconi quality where corruption allegations have followed him around so much they have formed a shield around him. A sponge that soaks them and mingles them with all the others.
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While we’re on a matter not covered by the most repressive libel laws in Europe, isn’t that a real coup for US PR?
Europeans and South Americans simply haven’t the power vis-a-vis related vested interests or the inclination to move against the stinking cesspool that is FIFA. That will go down well with the football-obsessed across the world.
Bild Zeitung (think daemonic offspring of the Daily Mail and the Sun) had been leaked a piece from their very good friends in the Antlantik Brücke or similar about it was the “NSA wot one it” i.e. provided the evidence. Which says a lot about the relationship of Bild Zeitung the occupying forces in Germany (they never went away, you know), but little else about what actually happened.
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Something, something might be recorded on Oireachtas website.
No one should look there. Definitely not.
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Hahah, yeah, good point. Still, isn’t a part of the problem being that the media has been walking swiftly backwards away from reporting it themselves…
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I think there’s confusion in the media on the legal standing of anyone quoting partial extracts of the report. It looks to me like 15.12 (and the Surpreme Court) is good enough for the job, but perhaps the confusion arises from the old 1840 Act which confers only partial privilege on extracts (http://goo.gl/nZpaG3).
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I think that’s it. Odd that that confusion would exist. I can just about see why RTÉ is cautious. But everyone else?
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Gonna get the Dail report printed on a T Shirt in the morning
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Whos this redacted boy that everyone’s talking about?
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Dinny o’Burke
Donny o’ Brown
Dudley o’Breen
Ah damned can’t recall who they said.
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Denis Streisand?
Barbra O’Brien?
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All bully’s need to be felt with!
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Obviously I meant dealt with
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Are you trolling now?
Bloody hell man get some perspective.
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I wish you people would give it a rest.There’s no PERCENTAGE in it!
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FF getting in on the act…
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Fianna Fail still struggling with the difference between “cannot” and “will not”
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Nationalise all of the individuals holdings in the country and freeze his bank accounts. Regard it as payback for lack of tax, underpayment of interest to a state owned bank, failure to repay loans promptly and manipulating the media and politics.
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Seconded – what concerns me is that I might be (very distantly) related to the person in question.
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The National Union of Journalists has issued a statement:
ttps://www.nuj.org.uk/news/media-failure-to-defend-dil-privilege-may-shatter-public-trust/
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<a href="https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/media-failure-to-defend-dil-privilege-may-shatter-public-trust/"It's here. The NUJ says:
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[…] Someone said something somewhere about someone else but no one can be told what the something they s… […]
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What’s the deal with defamation law and quoting the British press?
What Greenslade says here in Guardian. in the last two paragraphs, seems to sum up his (Greenslade’s) view of the matter.
I couldn’t possibly comment. Or could I?
The referendum gloss seems to have lasted a bare week for this Government.
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Worth remembering that Irish media didn’t stand up to Section 31, while the UK channels quickly made a mockery of the British equivalent when it was introduced. There’s little point hoping for much from the print and broadcast media in Dublin.
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Doesn’t Dinny have a few mates on the RTE board?
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Well-connected is Dinny:
http://www.digicelgroup.com/en/about/board-of-directors
Nice political spread.
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“The Clinton Foundation lists Mr O’Brien as a donor to the sum of between $5 million and $10 million, including contributions made in 2014. The foundation only provides details of donations in ranges.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/clinton-book-publisher-corrects-references-to-denis-o-brien-1.2215424
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I heard an interesting story about a company connected to ‘someone’ this morning. More as I get it.
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And that was the last anybody ever heard of sonofstan.
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Who?
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The Stalinomatic WordPress-Plugin grinds into action and suddenly many past threads exhibit inexplicable gaps.
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