2010-08-23 12:45
I've decided to completely stop blogging here. Mainly because I just can't keep it up. I will continue blogging on sports over at nfsport.wordpress.com and reporting for extratime.ie. I can… Read More
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The blog of Niall Farrell, Journalism student.
2010-04-30 16:19
I deem very few press releases worthy of publication, however one that was sent to me today caught my eye. Enough is Enough, a protest at bank bailouts, takes place next Tuesday May 11, asse… Read More
2010-04-04 22:25
I'm not an avid follower of Student's Union politics in DCU. However I tend to perk up a bit around election time. This year is possibly the most controversial election yet though.Something… Read More
2010-03-30 09:56
Why are Irish newspapers so behind in their online interactivity? Many point to The Irish Times as a model for newspapers to move online. However the overwhelming majority of their onlin… Read More
2010-03-15 19:25
Lots of interesting reports have come out of the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference held over the last few days. One which caught my sports-loving eye was how cricket's Indian… Read More
2010-03-15 18:58
Today I tweeted about the news that US intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks. A 2008 report from the US Army Counterintelligence Centre, entitled "Wikileaks.org—An Online Reference… Read More
2010-03-10 08:33
I listened with interest this morning as Mary Harney went on Morning Ireland to discuss the role she played in the controversy around the non-review of 57,000 X-rays at Tallaght hospital.Har… Read More
2010-03-09 20:02
Mark Little spoke at the DCU Journalism Society last night about Online Journalism.One of the many questions he answered was "how do you make money from sharing [news on the web]"His answer:… Read More
2010-02-21 22:00
Hopefully every Sunday I'll get to do a round up of all that is good on the web in the week gone by.Starting with something close to my heart, Blurred Keys wrote about the visit of Press Omb… Read More
2010-02-21 15:48
Press Ombudsman Professor John Horgan addressed the DCU Journalism Society last night. In his address to the inaugural meeting of the society, Professor Horgan had some interesting thoughts… Read More
2010-01-22 16:57
British Muslim speaker and blogger Adam Deen came to DCU before Christmas to give talks on miracles in the Qu'ran and on The God Delusion. I caught up with him in DCU's Helix Cafe and in a l… Read More
2009-11-26 00:27
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2009-09-29 09:12
Here follows an interview with Stephen Rigney of the Socialist Party, Parliamentary Assistant to Joe Higgins MEPSum up for us, in 30 words or less (or as brief as possible), why the Socialis… Read More
2009-09-28 08:54
This is an interview with Marcas O' Mhaoldomhnaigh, Ógra Shinn Féin National PRO.Can you sum up, in 30 words or less, why OSF are opposed to the Lisbon Treaty? Ógra Sh… Read More
2009-09-25 22:45
I'm starting a series of articles which are interviews with people opposed to the Lisbon Treaty.First up is Gareth Murphy, General Secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement (CYM).NF: Sum up f… Read More
2009-09-23 23:00
The EU, in its wisdom, has decided that now would be a good time to grant Poland a 54.5 million euro aid package to help launch the Dell plant that recently moved to Poland from Limerick (S… Read More
2009-09-23 22:05
I thought I'd get back to blogging at last, after a long sojourn.Jim Corr on Lisbon. That would have been a strange sentence a while ago, not now though.The Yes side has Robbie Keane and Sea… Read More
2009-08-10 13:04
Today I will be watching the Sinn Féin “activist meeting” in Navan with much interest (see here).
Sinn Féin at the moment is in turmoil, left reeling after t… Read More
2009-08-04 16:33
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has agreed to become a sports journalist for the Irish News Of The World, writing a weekly column for the Sunday edition of the tabloid.Why?Because he’s a… Read More
2009-08-04 16:07
In 2006, there were 6,981,000 trips made by Irish people abroad. That means that the average Irish person made nearly two trips abroad that year. There are no statistics for this year ava… Read More
2009-07-19 17:48
There's another example of how twitter is being used at the forefront of politics going on right now."Indonesia Unite" is a movement which aims to show that the country is united against ter… Read More
2009-07-12 18:05
The recent criminal justice bill passed through the Dail left me on the fence. On one hand, it’s easy to see that action must be taken to combat gang crime, particularly (though not ex… Read More
2009-07-12 00:37
Forget horror movies, the Irish Economy is where it's at if you want to b e scared these days. I came across this in my boredom today. It's a real-time counter for Ireland's debt. I find it… Read More
2009-07-11 23:25
Seeing the numbers at the protest to save services in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin was a little bit upsetting. I would estimate that just over 100 people were there… Read More
2009-07-11 19:55
My feelings towards the re-introduction of student fees were initially quite straightforward- a big NO. I felt that it would impact most on the lower-income students who were already struggl… Read More
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