Niall Sargent
Current Affairs Correspondent at The Currency
Reporter @thecurrency | Lecturer @griffithcollege | MAs Critical Terrorism Studies & Investigative Journalism | Fmr Intelligence Analyst |
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1 week ago |
thecurrency.news | Niall Sargent
To be memorable, it is always best to finish with a bang, as the expression goes. Not that the bloodstock magnate John Magnier requires any catchy soundbites to bring him into the public spotlight, what should be his final morning in the witness box in Court 29 of the High Court was certainly memorable.
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thecurrency.news | Niall Sargent
The Arts Council’s most senior executive Maureen Kennelly will leave her position this summer. In a statement, the Board of the Arts Council said that it is announcing with “deep regret” that Maureen Kennelly will step down as director of the Arts Council in June. Maureen concluded her five-year term on May 4 and has “generously agreed to remain in her role to represent the Arts Council at upcoming Public Accounts Committee and Oireachtas hearings”, the board said.
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thecurrency.news | Niall Sargent
This coming Thursday morning, the newly formed Public Accounts Committee will hold its first flagship session of the 34th Dáil as the Arts Council comes before it. As there was when RTÉ officials came before it, PAC members will have serious questions about the €5.3 million wasted on the Arts Council’s abandoned IT project.
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thecurrency.news | Niall Sargent
In January 2018, when Senator Frances Black introduced the Occupied Territories Bill, it is doubtful that she expected it would still be languishing in legislative purgatory seven years and two governments later. Her fairly straightforward piece of legislation would make it a criminal offence to import goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
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thecurrency.news | Niall Sargent
A threat to free speech, a threat to media freedom, and even a threat to the Good Friday Agreement. This is how the Government’s surprise decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism was greeted by multiple groups, including the university teachers’ federation, the leading journalists’ union, as well as development organisations.
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