Brian Mahon
Political Correspondent at Irish Daily Mail
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2 days ago |
extra.ie | Brian Mahon
People who visit the Oireachtas should ‘respect the institutions of the House’, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said in response to the guest of a TD who likened the food in the Members’ Restaurant to excrement. Richie Herlihy, an online personality who also runs Richie’s Food Truck in Mayfield, Co. Cork, was invited by Independent Ireland TD Ken O’Flynn into Leinster House last month, but his rule-breaking video sparked complaints to two Oireachtas authorities.
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4 days ago |
irishcentral.com | Brian Mahon
Social media companies should "most definitely" be brought before the Oireachtas Media Committee to discuss how they deal with disinformation on foot of claims made online in the wake of the shooting in Carlow over the weekend, a TD has said. When the incident became public, some far-right actors pushed false information that the incident was carried out by a foreign national. Some social media users described the incident as a mass shooting with multiple victims wounded.
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4 days ago |
extra.ie | Brian Mahon
Social media companies should ‘most definitely’ be brought before the Oireachtas Media Committee to discuss how they deal with disinformation on foot of claims made online in the wake of the shooting in Carlow over the weekend, a TD has said. When the incident became public, some far-right actors pushed false information that the incident was carried out by a foreign national. Some social media users described the incident as a mass shooting with multiple victims wounded.
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1 week ago |
extra.ie | Brian Mahon
Danny Healy-Rae has angered Coalition leaders after calling a Dáil vote against the Government’s position in an ‘undemocratic and unprecedented move’. The Independent TD, a supporter of the Government, took the highly unusual step of calling a vote on a People Before Profit-Solidarity Bill to ban fox hunting at the ‘first stage’, when typically all pieces of legislation are allowed to proceed to ‘second stage’ where they can be debated.
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1 week ago |
rollercoaster.ie | Brian Mahon
It comes after US secretary of state Marco Rubio told officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process. Those who completed the application process to travel this year won’t be affected, nor those with a scheduled embassy interview. But one of the travel companies that facilitates the visa programme has urged students to take precautions.
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"CCCC tend not to work off footage that surfaces on social media or is the possession of anyone else outside the official broadcaster because it is open to legal challenges." Pure rubbish. Gardai ask for any sort of footage all the time, no?! https://t.co/lP7Ilrhq41
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