Irish elections and referendums must be shielded from external influence State can build electoral commission from scratch to guard against voter interference
about 19 hours ago Liz Carolan
There appears to be no Irish law explicitly banning overseas groups and individuals from working to influence our ballot boxes.
In May 2018, anti-abortion activist Emily Faulkner landed in Dublin Airport. She and a group of fellow activists had held a fundraiser in her native United States to raise $10,000 to pay for travel and campaign materials. They had feared they would be turned away by immigration officials, but as she pointed out, it “turns out nothing we were originally planning on doing was illegal at all”. So they travelled throughout Ireland with 5,000 posters they had printed urging Irish citizens to vote No to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment.
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Calm with Horses Irish stars Niamh Algar and Barry Keoghan and Cartoon Saloon s
Wolfwalkers are among the British Academy Film Awards nominees hoping to win a prize on the second night of this year s virtual ceremony.
Algar and Keoghan are nominated in the Best Supporting Actress and Actor categories, for their performances in the Galway and Clare filmed crime-thriller made by Element Pictures.
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Blog: What can be done to combat disinformation in Ireland?
‘What can be done to combat disinformation in Ireland?’
The #KeepItReal campaign has now drawn to a close after the successful webinar organised by ARTICLE19 and the #KeepItReal ambassadors on March 23
rd. The conversations during the webinar were interesting and insightful, while it was refreshing to hear the multitude of perspectives and solutions put forward on the topics of disinformation and freedom of expression by speakers.
Disinformation has always been around. The term “dezinformatsiya” was first coined in the 1920s by Josef Stalin as the name of the section of the KGB who were set up to mislead enemies and influence public opinion. Now more than ever due to the unprecedented scale of amplification of disinformation on social media, the general public are experiencing rafts of disinformation being thrown at them. According to the Reuters Digital News Report in 2020, 80% of the population of Ireland
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