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Your Country, Your Call: Request for SIPO investigation
This request for investigation, with accompanying documentation, will arrive with the Standards in Public Office Commission tomorrow or the next day. Request An Smaoineamh Mór Limited is a company...
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Your Country Your Call: SIPO and I exchange further letters
I received a letter from SIPO today telling me that they were continuing with their examination of my request for an investigation. I made reply as follows. I write to acknowledge receipt of your...
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Your Country, Your Call; The Dept of Enterprise is not at home to visitors
A few weeks ago, prompted by this article in the Irish Times on the announcement of the final 5 candidates for the €200,000 Your Country, Your Call cash bonanza, I emailed the Press Office the...
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Your Country, Your Call: Follow-up with SIPO
Re: Ongoing examination of An Smaoineamh Mór Ltd under the Electoral Acts Dear Sirs, I write further to our previous correspondence on the above topic. I note your confirmation that the Commissioners...
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Your Country, Your Call: SIPO fails the test
I have received a reply from the Standards In Public Office Commission regarding my request for an investigation of An Smaoineamh Mór Limited, the company running the Your Country, Your Call...
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Your Country Your Call: FOI docs reveal consternation, hubris
Rossa McMahon made a request under FOI for documents from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation regarding the Your Country, Your Call competition. Mostly, it was refused. So, being a...
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Your Country Your Call: FOI reveals a System of the World
The key document released to Rossa McMahon following his FOI appeal to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation was An Smaoineamh Mór’s proposal document for the Your Country Your Call...
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Your Country, Your Call: Down the rabbit hole.
As your official Your Country, Your Call news source I feel it my duty to draw to your attention the latest twist in the tale, brought to us by the Irish Times. It involves the spouse of the President...
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Your Country, Your Call: The Sums
€2 million (Per An Smaoineamh Mór Chairman Dr. Laurence Crowley) minus €300,000 (gov money not paid) minus €150,000 (hard costs such as taxis and couriers) minus €200,000 (cash prize money already...
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Your Country Your Call: An Smaoineamh Mór Ltd’s Financial Statement
Throughout the Your Country, Your Call competition we were promised information would be made available later. When we asked who the donors were, were were told it would be released in a few weeks....
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One job, no implementation: Why Your Country, Your Call was still a success
Readers will know that I have been following the looking-glass world of Your Country, Your Call for some time. I’ve lots of posts with facts and figures about the company. But there was a report in...
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The Journalistic Standards of Newstalk
Denis O’Brien has an opinion piece in today’s Irish Times defending himself (and by extension his journalists) against the charge that he “despises” journalism. He cites, as evidence of his support...
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