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Today nine presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament are in Dublin to discuss our presidency of the council of the European Union. And that’s because just five weeks from now, Ireland will assume the presidency for the seventh time since we joined the EU in 1973. We’re told that the core themes of this presidency will be stability, growth and jobs but no doubt working out a new seven year budget for the European Union will be to the fore as well. Joining Pat in studio Minister of State for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton.
By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Bloomsbury)
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall likes a battle. In the past 10 years, the cook, writer and food campaigner has been on a mission to make us think deeply about what we eat. In Britain he has taken on the biggest supermarket over low-welfare chickens and become the front man in a high-profile campaign to change the EU fisheries policy. He is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and he joined Pat in studio.
The long awaited Leveson report into press standards in the UK will be published later today. Lord Justice Levenson heard witnesses including the British Prime Minister David Cameron during his investigation into the culture, practise and ethics of the press.
The tabloids have had difficulties here – just yesterday X- Factor judge Louis Walsh received a €500,000 defamation settlement in a case brought against the Sun. And recently the Editor of the Irish Star left the paper after the publication of topless photographs of the British Royal Kate Middleton.
Joining Pat was Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism, Kingston University, London and Paul Drury former editor of the Daily Mail, Evening Herald and Irish Daily Star.
Nazi gold, fugitive war criminals and the threat of nuclear war and communism were the burning issues in Irish foreign policy in the post war years.
Myles was joined in studio by historian Michael Kennedy has been looking at the secret archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs for some time and has published a new book on his findings.
