Media barred from main session of this year's #prebudgetforum hosted by Dept of Social Protection for the FIRST time ever since the late Seamus Brennan started them in 2004. Shocked. What is the Dept afraid we'll hear? Attitude of press office was pretty arrogant too. @ReginaDo
— Kitty Holland (@KittyHollandIT) July 20, 2018
I'm seeking an explanation from Dept. Press office said it's "easier" if media not there. easier for whom? https://t.co/bPUNSovAT3
— Kitty Holland (@KittyHollandIT) July 20, 2018
This morning.
Pre-Budget Forum, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2
Anyone?
Pic: Michelle Byrne
Update:
Minister of State with special responsibility for disabilities, Finian McGrath and Minister for Employment Affairs Social and Protection, Regina Doherty speaking to the media outside the forum’s main session.
Rollingnews
UPDATE:
It seems the Dept has changed their mind! Journalists allowed in now. #prebudgetforum https://t.co/zwLz4lhXC9
— Kitty Holland (@KittyHollandIT) July 20, 2018
the media may be barred but inm columnist and consumer expert Sinead Ryan seems to be sitting at the table.
….with a jar of jelly beans and an abacus.
INM/FG/An Garda Síochana: all in the same gang.
Boy, that sounds like a riveting meeting. I can understand Kittys fury at not being let in.
Hmmm are they not all down in Kerry hill walking? It can only mean one thing they are flying kites about cuts to social welfare!!
the always offended Kitty
Kitty has just tweeted that she’s offended by that comment.
Get over yourself. FFS why do journos think they are entitled to be at everything? Maybe they are banned as they give a warped “judgement” of what really was said. Even Broadsheet do the same – read postings on the McCabe tribunal.
alright, Goebbels.
They don’t want you to hear about the increase in funds going to Seetec.
How would they miss but be arrogant with that article Doherty at their helm….
Jesus a couple of months ago the media scandal was the strategic communications unit (or the Ministry of truth). Then there was the scandal involving the government taking out ads for Ireland’s 2040 that were presented as favourable articles. Nowadays it’s this sort of thing and all the crap coming out at the disclosures tribunal.
We need to take a serious look at media ownership and operation in Ireland. Politicians have sidestepped this issue for years.
Hardly surprising as regina docherty comes across as a very arrogant person, but sure they weren’t barred they just weren’t allowed in (aka mandatory but not compulsory).
Her husband sold his Lamborghini last year in the UK.
No joke.
I’ll take with a pinch of salt anything Kitty Holland says. If another journalist backs up her claim then fine.
Gwan the Kitty! Best journo in the Irish Times!
But just count the number of wimmin on the top table. Gender balance?
If goes to show the issue is not gender but class and power. Though the correlation is that women are in a class with no power.
Still waiting for the IT Women’s Podcast with the two white middleclass Sandymount that do it about the Danielle Carroll summer school. Can someone share the link?
what to expect from blushirts..
I suppose Leos SCUnit will be active spinning the facts
Meanwhile brexit looms and we have no clue what is coming
All we know is the WTO has the final say
Even the EU has to play by the rules