From Newspaper Man: Despite the recent floods in Pakistan the Irish Red Cross (IRC) has been relatively quiet in comparison to other Irish charities who have made numerous public appeals for donations.I only heard an IRC radio ad for its Pakistan appeal for the first time yesterday.One reason behind the IRC’s quietness is its suspension [...]
From Newspaper Man: Two weeks ago we published details of a secret €600,000 settlement the HSE agreed with Lifeline Ambulance in 2008.The settlement figure was released 14 months after a Freedom of Information request was made and required an order by Emily O’Reilly to the HSE to release the information. O’Reilly said she encountered "misleading [...]
From Newspaper Man: Earlier this year we reported on the average €18,000 a month the National Consumer Agency is spending on PR with Q4 PR.There are NCA staff who are unhappy the agency is spending so much on PR especially at a time when it has low staff numbers and those staff are no longer [...]
From Newspaper Man: The public won’t be getting to hear most of the detail of the fall-out from last year’s complaints about MCD concerts because MCD have settled a High Court action taken against it by Sophie Ridley, its event controller.Judge Mary Laffoy agreed to strike out the case on consent of both parties on [...]
From Newspaper Man: It was revealed that Frank McClintock, the head of the national ambulance service, resigned over expenses irregularities last week. The Health Service Executive forwarded its file on the irregularities to gardai to investigate further. There is still a good deal to emerge on this and I won’t be closing my file on [...]
From Newspaper Man: Just an update to let you know that The Sunday Times will not be appealing the OIC decision to refuse access to the two memos made of the September 2008 meetings between state officials and bankers hours before the government decided to guarantee all bank deposits.Thanks for the half-dozen offers of €50 [...]
From Newspaper Man: Just an update to let you know that The Sunday Times will not be appealing the OIC decision to refuse access to the two memos made of the September 2008 meetings between state officials and bankers hours before the government decided to guarantee all bank deposits.Thanks for the half-dozen offers of €50 [...]
From Newspaper Man: Just an update to let you know that The Sunday Times will not be appealing the OIC decision to refuse access to the two memos made of the September 2008 meetings between state officials and bankers hours before the government decided to guarantee all bank deposits.Thanks for the half-dozen offers of €50 [...]
From Newspaper Man: Last week we got the news that Emily O’Reilly, the Information Commissioner, had decided to rule against The Sunday Times on an important Freedom of Information request. A copy of the decision should be up on the Office of the Information Commissioner’s (OIC) website soon but here is the copy I [...]
