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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.
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.
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 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. (coughlanmp AT gmail DOT com) Is there something that Mark should know about? Call 087 9431203
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 us.
Thestory.ie feedback
“Excellent”. Broadcaster and columnist Matt Cooper. Irish Examiner.
“…ferrets relentlessly through information obtained through Freedom of Information requests and publishes the results.” Hugh Linehan, The Irish Times, August 3, 2010
“…fantastic.” John Burns, The Sunday Times
“Support them, shower them with breakfast cereals and all the gold they can eat.” Stephen Kinsella, Economics lecturer.
“….does for Irish political life what the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics does for the UK, except they do it better.” Peter Stafford, research analyst.
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