Do even Intelligence Reports have to pass into history eventually?
Sometimes looking at these files, you can understand that it would be a bad decision to release them.
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These are all secret ditches. Stop looking at them.
Part of the reason I asked for these files was because I was curious as to how reflexively the state would want to keep things secret.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs has a secret file on Shergar
I’m not sure I really need to say much more than that here.
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I’m sorry, I can’t tell you about the weather. It’s a secret.
Dealing with these files sometimes throws up questions of balance.
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What? It was just some perfectly normal fertiliser we were getting the Army to test
This is doubtless just your standard fertiliser to make daffodils and such bloom even more lovely.
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Three days that shook the CSO
I have no idea what happened over the Halloween Bank Holiday weekend of 1971.
These things are, officially, secret
I’ve written before about the Irish state’s love of all things secret.
Freedom of Information: The World of Hurt
Gavin Sheridan has an excellent essay in today’s Sunday Independent, debunking all the arguments advanced for our State’s insistence on charging an upfront fee for making a Freedom of Information request.
Lewis Carroll’s Freedom of Information Bill 2013
Maybe it was the lateness of the hour or maybe it was just the effect of a couple of days of unexpected trouble but minister Brendan Howlin today told us why he wants to charge €15.00 in respect of FOI
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What price Freedom (of Information)
Brendan Howlin’s department is defending its plans to multiply FOI fees by relying on discredited figures originally produced by B.
Freedom of Information: Fees to be multiplied in new amendment
As you may know, I made efforts this August to highlight a problem with Section 17 of the new Freedom of Information Bill.
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FOI Bill: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s Right To Reply
I told the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that if they would like to make a reply to my FOI Posts, I would publish it.
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Truths you weren’t meant to know: Why the FOI Bill is as it is.
In case there is any doubt about why Section 17 (4) of the newly published Freedom of Information Bill was inserted, let us compare an enquiry from data journalist Gavin Sheridan with the new restrictions.
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The Irish State wishes to uninvent computers with new FOI Bill
The new Freedom of Information Bill was published on the 24th July.
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