Why was there no RTÉ (or pool) exit poll from the referendum? Why hasn’t the Eurobarometer post-referendum poll been released? This thing gets more farcical by the hour.
Since about 10.30 last Friday morning, when it became clear it would be a ‘No’ to the Lisbon Treaty on the early tallies, seemingly everyone in Ireland and [...]
The Secret Lisbon Poll
June 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: EU · Ireland · irish politics · media · politics
Whitewash
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Irish Times published a second story today on the Estate Agent market manipulation scandal. Its story yesterday, along with a tiny item in the Indo, noted that the National Consumer Agency had demanded a meeting with the industry. Ann Fitzgerald of the NCA certainly throws some fire in the first IT article:
“is extremely serious [...]
Why did the Irish Times spike its own property scoop?
April 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments
The Irish Times property editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote a letter to Ireland’s estate agents, calling them out for attempting to manipulate the market by exaggerating (translation: lying) about the sale prices of houses bought by private treaty. Massive story. The Sunday Business Post — no stranger to property advertising — runs a big piece on [...]
Thoughts on the Irish Blog Awards & the future of media
March 4th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Contrary to some reports, Herself and I did make it down to the Alexander to catch some of the Blog Awards - though the vicissitudes of bedtime cannot be rushed, we opted to come late rather than not come at all. And I’m glad we did, because we got to see something important happen - [...]
Tags: Blogging · US politics · media
Tear-Duct Politics
December 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
This column first appeared in the 10 December 2006 edition of the Sunday Tribune.
EMOTIONAL CORRECTNESS AND TEAR-DUCT POLITICS
Richard Delevan
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” Mao Tse Tung famously pronounced. Not true. In Ireland, political power flows from the tear duct.
Empathy is the currency of modern politics. Keep your eyes on [...]
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