by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, has pledged to widen income tax bands as soon as the State can afford it to take people out of the higher tax bracket. Mr Noonan told the Association of European Journalists on Friday, February 7, that the biggest problem...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
European Commission approval of Permanent TSB’s restructuring plan is still some months away, despite the bank’s hopes that it could be achieved by the end of December, European Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia told a meeting of the Association of...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
Candidates in next year’s European elections are likely to need a budget of € 100,000 to run an effective campaign following the redrawing of the State’s constituency boundaries, Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has told the AEJ. Mr Hogan said...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
On Wednesday, June 19th, human rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim spoke to an AEJ luncheon meeting at the St. Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club. In her passionate introduction, she told the meeting of her career which led her from a muslim village in northern Nigeria to...
by chrismmgordon | Feb 26, 2015 | News
On Friday, May 3rd, several events took place in Dublin to mark international World Press Freedom Day. The Irish section of the Association of European Journalists hosted a lunch at the Stephen’s Green/Hibernian Club at which the guest was Dáithí...
