Archive for the ‘ Politics ’ Category

Letter to Seán Gallagher

I‘ll admit outright, I’m not a Gallagher supporter. I believe him to be coasting by on his relatively clean image, a campaign which has nothing to do with the office he seeks and generally keeping his mouth shut. But given his climbing poll numbers, he must be taken seriously, which is why I emailed a [ READ MORE ]

Political Ideologies in Assessing the Mass Media

Political ideologies are a prevailing feature of 20th century thought, not least the battle between the left and right, the free market and the centrally controlled socialist utopia. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is perhaps the best example of this, transforming and supposedly adapting the socialist rhetoric into one which he believes can fit the model of [ READ MORE ]

Intellectual Property Paper

The Conflict Between Free Content and a Creative Economy in the Internet Age Introduction The proliferation of the Internet has led to information and ideas being shared in a way never imagined before whilst leading to a battle between those who before had a monopoly on how their output was presented and shared with the [ READ MORE ]

Apt Under these Circumstances

Today David Cameron becomes PM of the UK, whether it be through a minority government or with the help of a Liberal Democrat/Conservative coalition. All it reminded me of is this quote from Aaron Sorkin’s “The American President”. Lewis Rothschild: People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they’ll listen to [ READ MORE ]

Section 205 – Minority Oppression

Groundbreaking or still defined by the “privilege of incorporation?” Section 205 of the Principle Act has been largely influential in how it has wrestled absolute control from the majority shareholders and directors to enable minority shareholders to effect change where otherwise they would be incapable of doing so. However this in itself is limited in [ READ MORE ]

The European Democratic Deficit

EU Assignment Introduction The European Union has developed in scope from being merely economic in intentions to encompass the political and foreign spheres of government yet, it is constantly assaulted for harbouring a deep-seated democratic deficit. The Lisbon Treaty, following on from the ill-fated European Constitutional Treaty, seeks to remedy this through broad reforms but [ READ MORE ]

What happened to rights?

So as I was getting ready this morning and flicked on the TV (in the interest of full disclosure, it was TV3′s Midday) to discover that they were talking about the CCTV cameras placed in the toilets of a Kildare secondary school and subsequent protest by students. The full story is here but more than [ READ MORE ]

Pic or it didn’t happen

Before I mentioned an Obama toy that wasn’t very pleasant looking and guess what I came across in Barcelona today&#[ READ MORE ]

Lisbon 2.0

It’s election time which made me wonder when we’ll have to vote on Lisbon again. Then I stumbled upon this&#[ READ MORE ]

Every action…

Damien has been following this a lot more closely than I have myself so he has something more concrete to share on the whole thing but anything to get the ball rolling even further. One report has been issued on the subject of institutional abuse within some of the diocese of the Irish Catholic Church. [ READ MORE ]

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