Tuesday 21 May, 2013
WE HAD THE announcement of a referendum on the fiscal compact and a resignation to go with it.
There was revelations both serious and not so serious in the ongoing phone hacking scandal. And a proposal to honour Che Guevara in Galway was the subject of criticism in the US.
All that and more, here’s the week in quotes:
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I don’t believe that Sinn Fein got off lightly at all in the sense that their abuse of the system is imprinted on the minds of the Irish electorate for what it really is.
My concern is how did this important discovery in a democracy become of such little importance to the Editorial staff at The Journal?
Hi all,
Sinn Féin did not make the cut this week which in hindsight was slightly remiss of me but rest assured there was plenty of coverage given to #Inkgate throughout the week: http://www.thejournal.ie/topic/sinn-fein/
Cheers,
Hugh
The real reason that the Inkgate scandal was dropped was due to the trivialising way that journalists dealt with gross abuses of privilege.
Sinn Fein should now be asked to produce either invoices or receipts for the paper purchased and used to absorb this enormous amount of ink or toner.
Since political organisations have statutory obligations then such a small administrative task should be simple for them.
If journalists don’t ask then there is a Dail committee on privileges that is honour bound to follow this up.
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