How the wealthy and powerful muzzle reporting in Ireland

The Irish Passport

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ireland's strict libel laws and onerously expensive legal system is stacked against journalists and in favour of wealthy people who abuse the situation to censor reporting about them. That's when Naomi discovered in her research for a recent report for press freedom organisation the International Press Institute. She discusses what she found out, why property developers are particularly litiguous in Ireland, and what the impact is on ordinary journalists and media organisations from the largest broadcasters to the smallest magazines and podcasts. As it happens, Tim was recording this episode in Paris, just as France was about to face another night of large-scale rioting following the shooting of a teenager by police. He explains what led to the situation. To access more than 100 bonus episodes like this one, support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport Naomi's report can be read here: https://ipi.media/ireland-how-the-wealthy-and-powerful-abuse-legal-system-to-silence-reporting/

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, I hope you're having a great summer. Myself and Tim are taking a break and we'll return
0:05.1	soon with a brand new season of the Irish Passport podcast. But in the meantime, please enjoy one of the
0:11.5	bonus episodes we recently released for our supporters over on Patreon. We'll continue to post episodes
0:17.6	like this throughout the summer. So if you'd like some extra summer listening
0:21.2	and to support the podcast, do head over to patreon.com forward slash the Irish passport to get
0:26.5	access to more than 100 bonus episodes just like this one. Thanks so much for listening. Hello, everyone and welcome back to the Irish Passport Half-Pinds, where we are going to continue Naomi talking a little bit
0:56.1	about current events and things that we wanted to get around to discussing in the last little while,
1:01.3	right?
1:01.7	Starting off with you, Tim, you're actually in Paris recording this right now and you were just
1:07.2	telling me there's rumour of a curfew.
1:10.1	I feel like that because this is like the top news story in the world,
1:15.0	or at least in parts of the world right now, I have to address it.
1:18.1	Can you tell us what's going on there right now?
1:20.4	In Paris, yeah.
1:21.1	So if you haven't seen, so we're recording this on the 1st of July, 2023.
1:26.3	And there have been riots for a few days now. It's really, really serious riots,
1:30.6	um, all across France, not just in Paris, right? Which is, it's really something. I think something like
1:35.8	a thousand people. I think it was maybe 1,300 people now, uh, were arrested last night, which is
1:41.6	just, it made me think of, um, it made me think of our War of Independence
1:46.0	episode, actually, where we were talking about, you know, rounding up 2,000 people after the
1:50.1	Easter rising. This isn't that far off, you know, like, this is a thousand people getting arrested
1:54.3	in one night. So to make a long story short, there was a teenager from the Paris suburb of Nantir.
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