Monthly Archives: April 2004

’Why Protest the Dublin EU Summit? What are the Issues Anyway?’ It is critical to show, during such a display of media power and control as we have seen in the past few weeks in Ireland in the run-up to … Continue reading →

From March 22 to April 2, 60 trained Iraqi pollsters interviewed 3,444 randomly selected Iraqis for USA Today. This is one of the first polls in Iraq that seems to me well weighted statistically, though to be sure we’d have … Continue reading →

TV3 Irelands 4th TV station (launched after RTE1 Network2 & TG4) launched a teletext service in 2001, but last weekend it dropped its news & sports pages from the text servive. Teletext services are in decline in europe as digital … Continue reading →

Condoleezza Rice & Bertie Ahern take the stand today, to defend their futures, Ahern wont remember while Rice will spin the war. On June 26th they can swap notes. It will fill our news screens and deflect from the real … Continue reading →

IMPACT has claimed that the Government’s stealth taxes will eventually erode incomes. [bhg comment]where were the IMPACT leaders last September/October ? lining up with the Govt. to support stealth taxes in the form of Bin Charges.[/bhg comment] The Union has … Continue reading →

The Government has decided to hold the referendum on citizenship rights on 11 June, at the same time as the local and European elections. [bhg->] I hope the electronic machines can handle 3 polls at once The fact that this … Continue reading →