A lawyer with McGarr Solicitors and director of Data Compliance Europe. Senior Policy Advisor for M3AAWG, guest lecturer with ERA in Trier & External Examiner for Irish Law Society on Data Protection.
This week saw US politics succumb to the remorseless power of the gods of narrative, and the first ever example of the Department of Education failing the Leaving Cert because it didn’t show its workings. This is the Gist. Ill behaviour The US President has spent months denying the
Big things have happened in the last fortnight. Big things are coming in the next two weeks. But now, you're stuck in the middle with the rest of us. This is the Gist.
It is becoming a settled truism that the Government is struggling to communicate. This week saw that struggle take fresh new turns, for each of the three parties.
While golfgate continued to swirl around the Government, their biggest project since taking office is poised to start. It's back to school.
Mask nazis and Dáil Recall be damned, we're taking a break from Ireland. Come with me and we'll see what's up elsewhere.
They played a round, downed a round and then sat around. The week the Oireachtas Golf Society decided to mark its 50th anniversary by blowing up a Government.
What if it’s not just a communication problem?
Ireland's insatiable sliced-ham habit hits hard and the capital city casts about to recast itself in the post-pub age. This is the Gist.
Everything and everyone else seems very insignificant when our view adjusts to take in the passing of a giant. John Hume's funeral was today. This is, well, a Gist.
In the pandemic turmoil, the plan for the Irish government to become a regulator of Internet content for much of the world has drifted under the radar. This is the Gist.
Sideshow Bob and his Circus of Rakes continued their governmental manoeuvres in the dark. But even as a forest of rake handles met their allotted noses, truths emerged. This is the Gist.
Its going to define the shape of the internet for years to come, its come out of Ireland (twice) and its super complicated. This is the Gist.