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… dedicated to sharing documents, combing and combining data and promoting transparency in public life: An experiment in journalism and crowdsourcing hoping to shed light on the government. If you’re spending the Irish taxpayers’ money, you’re on the radar.

Gavin Sheridan is a blogger and journalist from Cork. He established one of Ireland’s longest running blogs, Gavinsblog.com and helped set-up Kildarestreet.com. Kildarestreet is designed to allow citizens keep tabs on what their TDs and Senators are up to in the Oireachtas. You might see his name pop up in the Irish Examiner the odd time too. (gavinsblog AT gmail DOT com). He works at a new media startup founded by former broadcaster Mark Little.

Mark Coughlan is a 22 year old freelance journalist and researcher from Dublin. He has worked (and works) on short-term (alas, sometimes just one day) contracts for various media outlets in Ireland and been published in several of the national and regional newspapers. He also writes analysis for Irishelection.com when the mood takes him. (coughlanmp AT gmail DOT com)

The views expressed here are those of the writer alone and relate in no way to the the views or lack thereof of their employers, past or present.

If you have copies of any documents relating to Ireland or the Irish Government – old FOIs that are no longer useful to you, Government reports that have not been given much coverage, land registry docs relating to holders of public office, CRO documents for companies who made political donations – we’d love you to send them to:

tips AT thestory DOT ie

If you don’t have them in digital form, contact us and we’ll arrange something.

Every document we obtain will be open to public inspection and credited to the source from where we receive it (or not, as some might ask). In the case of FOIs we obtain that were originally applied for by someone else, we’ll credit the person who submitted the original request (or not, if they so wish). We’ll also be sending and publishing FOIs from time to time, we’d love help with funding and will let you know how you can chip in over the next few days.