Desperate times
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Michael Noonan’s comments going down well in Venezuela
After Hours’ is a short documentary looking at nightclubs in Ireland with a particular focus on opening hours and licensing laws.
Give us the night was formed in 2004 with the aim of promoting sequential or staggered closing times between bars, late bars and nightclubs across Ireland and creating debate and logical discussion about licensing laws. The latter being no easy task in itself.
You can read a recent interview with head honcho Sunil Sharp over on Rabble and Constantin Gurdgiev’s report for the Irish Nightclub Industry Association on the impact of Ireland’s licensing laws can be found here.
Both Fine Gael and particularly Labour have made noises about bringing nightclub opening hours in line with the 21st century rest of the EU in the past. They’ve been elected now of course but the Minister in charge Alan Shatter has spoken encouragingly twice in Dáil as late as October. So Vintner lobby/Joe Duffy withstanding, it’s likely the Sale Of Alcohol Bill will include provisions relating to the operation of nightclubs sometime in late this year but probably 2013.
We only want a dance. Give us the night
Libertas campaign launch #euref
Brian Hayes’ own spin eating itself in slow motion
According to Pat Rabbitte “Nowhere has the standard dropped so much as in the coverage of politics”. As one person pointed out, Isn’t is amazing how much the supposed standard of journalism has dropped since March 2011? Harry Browne had a good piece on the Irish Times’ new business focus in the last issue of Village. He made a point that we need to stop talking about a thing called journalism and start looking at things in journalisms. Who do we have?
Fionnan Sheehan
Harry McGee
Miriam Lord
Niamh Lyons
Lise Hand
Brendan Keenan
Noel Whelan
Stephen Collins
Mary Minihan
Michael O’Regan
Shaun Connolly
Mick Clifford
Pat Leahy
David Davin Power
Niamh Connolly
Jody Corcoran
Ursula Hallagan
Fiach Kelly
David McCullagh
John Drennan
Shane Coleman
Justin McCarthy
Martina Devlin
Páraic Gallagher
Sarah McInerney ( No idea who else writes for the ST)
Probably forgetting more but it’s fair to say of the list above there is far more then just one type of political journalism in the country. Whither it’s getting better or worse is entirely subjective but I would think people are or at least have the chance to be better informed more now then any time before. How much of that is down to the above is up to you.
#euref
