English teacher Nadia O’Brien (top), originally from Moldova, who began work at the Leinster College last Thursday at the college on Harcourt Street this morning.
Urgent notice (Leinster College)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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In the UK when the scandal of
visa shopslanguage schools was uncovered, wasn’t there a major investigation? In Ireland, apart from the Sunday Times and Mark Tighe, is anyone examining what is happening to all these language schools whose business model seems to be dependent on foreign non-EU students paying fees in return for visas which allow them to work in the black economy fulltime (or the greyish economy for what, 16 hours a week).You’d think the media would be all over this like flies, but no, it’s far safer to re-report international news agency stories about some randomer killed in the US. You’d think the politicians would be all over it, but unless the media guides them by the hand, there just isn’t the time, resources or payback. You’d think the ODCE would be all over it given that it’s a business which charges upfront fees in return for a service which is provided in future, but no, they don’t have the resources and it takes them years to investigate anything. You’d think the Gardai would have been all over it, but no, they’re too busy handholding water meter installers. You’d think the National Consumer Agency (an utterly useless quango) would be all over it, looking at best practice and implementing it, but they really are utterly useless.
Hmm Soundings, sounds like you’re all over it. Also if Mark Tighe covered it so well for the Sunday Times, why would other papers cover it in the immediacy, they would just be regurgitating his story. Also I’m sorry but a clampdown led to the closure of this place, so what are you actually on about.
it’s far safer to re-report international news agency stories about some randomer killed in the US /
That “randomer” was someones son or brother or cousin or friend. What a horrible inhuman way to refer to somone. You should telephone all the major media outlets in this country and persuade them to only report on items which meet your approval using this exact arguement.
Na, randomer is okay.
The randomers mother, sibling or cousins are unlikely to be reading http://www.rte.ie/news in Iowa or Alaska.
We have the internet, actual papers from around the world are freely available, it’s not an unreasonable thing to suggest that Irish journalists work on matter of actual public interest to people in Ireland. I don’t go to the Sydney Morning Herald to read about a car crash on the Mexico City ring road.
Some 170,000 people will die in the world today with 2,000 dying violently at someone else’s hands.
Once you’ve covered violent deaths in Ireland, and violent deaths of Irish abroad, is it too much to ask that national issues take priority? It’s a balancing act for sure with an element of subjectivity, but unless there is some outstanding feature in terms of scale or relevance, then why spent 20% of a news bulletin on a single teenager shot dead in Florida or Missouri? Well, we did send that lightweight to Washington and maybe we need justify her cost, but beyond that? The point I was making though is that there are plenty of national and local issues being overlooked in favour of news which is (and this is subjective) irrelevant to most of the audience.
+2014
News is Corrupt.
oh get off your high horse you patronising schmuck.
Fair dues Soundings at least you’re saying what you think about the way the country’s being run, as usual a lot easier to just be insulting. It suits a lot of people to ignore the way Irish society is going. We can disagree about the solution. Apathy is the enemy.