Today Ruth Coppinger TD in her Dail speech quoted Shakesphere:
This is how the mainstream media reacted:
https://twitter.com/Oireachtas_RX/status/565926595849101313
Political Policing goes hand in hand with political reporting
A blog by journalist Ciaran Tierney on the future of the resource depleted Irish media sphere:
http://ciarantierney.blogspot.ie/2015/02/the-death-of-irish-journalism.html?m=1
On Monday morning the Gardai began a highly political series of dawn raids which have so far seen 17 people, including two minors, arrested in force. The raids began on Monday with the arrest of three politicians, two local and one national, Paul Murphy TD. The arrests are concerned with a protest last November at which the Minister of Social Protection Joan Burton was delayed for up to two hours. No arrests were made on the day of the protest itself. So what has the Irish Times had to say about this affront on democracy and the right of protest, not much it seems, the print edition between Monday and Wednesday has produced a total of four articles (including a letter) with just over 1,000 words and no editorials. at the time of writing the arrests continue, it will be interesting to see if D’Olier St. has anything to say on the issue over the next number of days and if so what it is, watch this space.
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